Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...three additional downs, no touchdown would have been scored. With the score 5 to 0 against them, the University eleven put a snap into their play after the next kick-off that was irresistible. They had less than five minutes in which to play, but after recovering a long forward pass on Brown's 8-yard line, Lockwood scored a touchdown on the third play...
...ball was brought back to Harvard's 50-yard line, from where Dennie punted to Newhall. Two punts of Burr's sent the ball over Brown's goal line. Dennie made a beautiful 60-yard puntout, after which Harvard slowly worked the ball back, to lose it on a forward pass on Brown's 9-yard line. After this came Harvard's fine exhibition of holding and Brown's touchdown...
...yard line, but Brown was penalized 15 yards for holding. After one play, they punted to Newhall who ran back to the 36-yard line. Burr then pulled off the play which was the direct cause of the touchdown, Fish and M. C. Peirce recovering his 26-yard forward pass on the 8-yard line. Apollonio gained three yards through guard and followed with four more through tackle, and then Lockwood scored through right tackle on a split play. Burr kicked the goal...
...played the second team in a discouraging scrimmage yesterday afternoon, the former scoring one touchdown. The playing was very loose and crude for this time of the year, and the first team was unable to gain through the second as it should. There was a great falling off in forward passing. This play was worked with considerable success a couple of weeks ago, but yesterday three of Burr's long passes hit the ground without being caught. As a result the University team lost 45 yards in penalties for that play alone. Punts were exchanged frequently on account...
Shortly after the kickoff the second rushed the ball down to the University's 30-yard line, where Daly punted to Starr. After an exchange of punts, Burr's forward pass hit the ground on the 15-yard line. Aided by a 25-yard run by Cutting, the second got the ball to the University's 30-yard line a second time, where they lost it on a forward pass. The University, after an exchange of punts, rushed the ball to the second's 30-yard line, where Burr made the third forward pass to hit the ground. The team...