Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...during the game, while Harvard gained only 97 yards in this way. Yale was penalized only twice for a total of 25 yards, while Harvard lost 96 yards on 9 penalties. Harvard made eight first downs, four in each half, and Yale only made its distance twice. Only one forward pass, from Howe to Savage, was successful; Yale failed twice. Once Yale gained 35 yards consecutively, and Harvard's longest series of gains was 62 yards early in the second half...
...Corbett added three more. Corbett again took the ball through tackle and was downed on Yale's 36-yard line, after a gain of ten yards, for first down, In the next two plays Corbett carried the ball but gained only three yards. O'Flaherty then tried a forward pas, which was unsuccessful and although the ball hit the ground inside the field of play, Field Judge Hall decided that the ball went outside and it was Yale's ball on its own 41-yard line...
...attempted a forward pass which hit the ground, the penalty giving the ball to Yale on its own 32-yard line. Coy punted to O'Flaherty who was tackled for no gain. Minot tore through centre for several yards but fumbled, Leslie picking up the ball and running to Yale's 50-yard line. Kilpatrick threw Corbett for a loss Minot failed to gain, so he made an onside kick which Howe caught and ran back 13 yards. L. D. Smith threw Philbin for a five-yard loss on an attempted end run, then Coy punted to O'Flaherty...
...ball was put in play on Harvard's 25-yard line and after one play the penalty for an incompleted forward pass put the ball on the one-yard line. Minot stood behind his own goal line and punted to Murphy who made a fair catch on Harvard's 36-yard line. Hobbs tried a goal from placement which was low. The ball bounded along back of the goal line until it hit one of the spectators who threw it to Field Judge Hall. Since the ball had hit an official, Hobbs was allowed another try at goal which also...
...after a short gain on Harvard's 24-yard line. Minot made two yards through Andrus before he was called on to punt. Murphy ran the kick back five yards to his 44-yard line, and on the next play got two yards more through Fisher. The only successful forward pass of the game, one from Howe to Savage, gained six yards from Yale on the next play. However, as it was third down, Coy punted to O'Flaherty who was tackled by Kilpatrick on Harvard's 24-yard line. Leslie gained five yards, then Minot made first down through...