Word: gain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fumble. Butterworth kicked out at Yale's 35 yard line. Several more sharp plays, directed mostly at guard and tackle, and finally Harvard lost the ball on four downs. Butterworth at once kicked some 55 yards to Brewer at Harvard's 30 yard line. Waters ran twice with a gain of only 2 yards. This ended the first half...
...second half Yale's players were much less tired than Harvard's, by reason of the punting game they had played. Yale's flying wedge on the opening play gained only 10 yards, but this play was followed by a dozen others, some ten of them directed straight at Acton and Manahan, all netting good gains, though none of them very large. Butterworth once broke through the gap between Acton and Manahan and was downed by Beale after a gain of 10 yards. It was on the fourteenth play that Butterworth broke through again and made a touchdown. He crossed...
From this time on there were some 60 plays. Yale had the ball for nearly 45 of these, making gain after gain by tackle and guard. Harvard would get the ball on four downs or on a kick, only to be obliged to punt back. The ball was never once forced near Yale's goal, never again did Harvard enthusiasm rouse itself. Just after the fine runs by Wrightington and Brewer, Waters, who had already been hurt two or three times, was obliged to leave the field on account of a knock on the head and water on the knee...
This half Yale had the ball in 75 plays, Harvard 31. Yale gained 247 yards, 21 being on a single punt. Harvard had only 31 plays, with a total gain of 205 yards, 109 of which were made on 3 punts. Yale lost ground but 3 times, then only 4 yards in all. Harvard lost 9 yards on a failures to kick by Brewer on account of Beale's slow pass, and 10 yards on 3 other plays...
...Harvard has something more to gain which will come only after many years. It is the experience of victories. Year after year Yale teams go into the game with the feeling that they are in the line of victory that the elevens before them have won, and that somehow they also will win. Victory seems the natural thing. It is a confidence that is not over confidence, and which does wonders in winning a game. It is not to Yale's credit that she has this feeling, nor to Harvard's discredit that she has it not. The feelings with...