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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...defeat. The Yale men were wonderfully quick in dropping on the ball and by their agility in that direction they gained the play several times when Harvard rushers should have taken it. On the other side Harvard was superior in blocking and several times Yale was compelled to make four downs in succession without gain although the ball was within a few yards of Harvard's goal. Umpire Peace was very strict about off-side play and at important junctures in the game when every foot counted Harvard lost fifteen yards for off-side play by the rushers. Harvard...
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...game was won by Princeton-two goals to one. Harvard vs Yale: Yale won-one goal and one touchdown to nothing. Yale vs Princeton: neither side scored. Championship not awarded. 1881. Harvard vs Columbia: won by Harvard-one goal, three touchdowns to nothing. Harvard vs. Yale: won by Yale-four safeties to nothing. Harvard vs. Princeton-draw game. Yale beat Princeton. The championship was awarded to Yale...
...game began at 3.38, with Harvard in possession of the ball. It was forced rapidly toward the Athletic club goal line by short rushes. The whole team played an effective, snappy game, the rushers making holes for the backs and blocking off well. Four minutes after play began Frothingham kicked a goal from the field. Score 5-0. After the ball had been put in play at the center of the field, it was almost immediately forced into Harvard's territory, and there it stayed; it changed sides often because both teams fumbled execrably. But the Athletic club eleven...
...that once, as a workman on the cornice of a building lost his head and staggered, some one in the crowd beneath shouted "Cheer him!" The cheer was given and under its inspiration the man regained his foot hold. There were some men on Jarvis field, about half after four last Saturday who recalled this fact in bitterness of heart. Why was it that our first reverse broke the spirit of the men who were there to cheer for Harvard? But the serious part of the matter is the fact that many men are now ready to tear up their...