Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...able to obtain any distinct advantage, but in the second half the University team had no trouble in gaining through the Brown line, and played a much superior game. The teams resorted mainly to the old style of line-plunging game, and had little or no success with the forward pass or onside kick. Punting was frequent on both sides, McKay, of Brown, with the wind behind him being able to keep the ball in the middle of the field. There was no scoring in the first half, but Harvard had the ball on its opponent's 20-yard line...
...yard line, and when time was called at the end of the game MacKay had just blocked Brown's punt on the 7-yard line and a single line play had advanced it to the 2-yard line. Brown was never formidable in this half, and except for a forward pass of twenty yards was unable to make any progress...
...then the University team taking it. Burr and Kennard tried kicking from formations against the second eleven, most of the kicks being blocked. Burr's kicking was from placement, and Kennard tried drop kicks. During the scrimmage the University team was weak on the offense, and twice Cutler's forward passes were blocked. The second time Burrage got the ball and was running down the field when he was called back. Ver Wiebe showed up well at fullback...
...scrimmage between the substitutes and the second eleven lasted twenty minutes and resulted in one touchdown for the former team, which was made on straight line plunging from the middle of the field. The second team used the forward pass with considerable success...
...that most of us lose the greater proportion of the various advantages around us which are persistently slipping by, through a lack of foresight. When the announcement of a course of lectures by some eminent historian or a series of concerts appears early in the College year one looks forward to it with the keenest anticipation; the danger is that the greatest pleasure which will be gained is in this same delightful anticipation, for when the time comes, there is a duty or an obligation of some sort which makes it impossible to attend...