Word: foul
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard made throughout the game, for at that time the rushers broke through the line and blocked off beautifully, while Lee's work was superb. Princeton played a rough game throughout but the eleven was weakened very little by the loss of the men who were ruled off for foul play. Harvard's work was a trifle stronger than Princeton's in the first half, while in the second, every man on the home team weakened perceptibly, and the Princeton men got through Harvard's rushline without trouble. It is a question to what was due Harvard's weakening...
...never failed to use his men to the best advantage. In the rush line Cowan did by far the best work. His weight was of inestimable advantage to him in rushing and bunting through the line. Donnelly played well at end rush before he got put off for foul play, and Jones did far better than Riggs who was also disqualified for making a foul play. Princeton's better team work did not become apparent until the second half when all the rushers blocked off the Harvard men effectively, and made it possible for Ames and Channing to advance...
...Trafford kicked and P. Trafford picked up the leather and rushed 15 yards. Lee and Saxe fumbled badly, but Harvard luckily kept the ball. On Saxe's fumble again, Pennsylvania got the ball and Hulme, Valentine and Dewey advanced it twenty-five yards nearer Harvard's line. On a foul Harvard got the play and Lee made fifteen yards. Harding made a poor pass to Lee who finally got the ball and then dropped it. Hulme made six yards, but Church, Pennsylvania's quarterback, tried to run with the ball, and the referee gave it to Harvard on a foul...
White opened the second half with a gain of ten yards, but Aiken got through in the second play and Ninety-two lost five yards, A foul gave Ninety two ten yards. Carpenter gained three yards, and a shove gained three more, but Faulkner got through upon Carpenter and five yards were lost. Forbes kicked to McLeod who was stopped before he ran three yards. Carpenter caught a kick from Crane and ran ten yards. White made five yards through the rush line, but Forbes after finding a hole lost the ball. Ninety gained nothing and kicked, Forbes securing...
...first half and all through the second half there was more steadiness in the general work and many individual brilliant plays. With a good start the score would have been many points larger. Many more points were lost by great carelessness in regard to off-side and foul playing. The umpire was probably unusually careful, yet it is very important that the rules should be observed for such frequent loss of ground would be disastrious in a game with Yale or Princeton...