Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University football team defeated Bates yesterday afternoon by the decisive score of 33 to 4, in a game which showed the steady development which the University team is undergoing. The game was full of brilliant end runs, coupled with long gains from blocked kicks and well-perfected forward passes, so that the spectators were kept in a continual state of excitement. The work of the quarterbacks of both teams was of a very high order, and many long gains were made in running back kicks...
...improvement shown by the University team over the form in the Bowdoin game a week ago, was strongly noticeable. Forward passes and clever onside kicks were run off with promising smoothness, and long gains were made from a double pass which the opposing ends seemed unable to solve...
...through left tackle. On the next kick-off, Brennan ran back 24 yards, and Burr punted to Bates' 45-yard line. After several exchanges of punts, Newhall brought the ball from the middle of the field to the 40-yard line by clever dodging. After three plays, Burr's forward pass went to Bates on their 5-yard line. Newhall then heeled Schumacher's punt on the 40-yard line and Burr kicked a goal...
...playing in the second half was more ragged owing to the fact that many substitutes were put in. Bates carried the ball from the kick-off, after punting and recovering the ball on a forward pass to Harvard's 40-yard line, where Schumacher punted to Starr who ran to the 16-yard line. Harvard was set back to the 1-2-yard line on a penalty. At this point the team took a brace and carried the ball the whole length of the field for a touchdown, Gilbert scoring. The last touchdown was made by Nourse...
...After a few minutes of light preliminary work, the squad was divided up into several teams each of which was given a hard signal practice. Later there was a fifteen-minute scrimmage between the first and second teams in which neither side was able to score. A great many forward passes and onside kicks were tried during the scrimmage with rather poor results. Toward the end, the first eleven resorted to old style play and were gaining very steadily when the scrimmage was stopped...