Word: gain
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...delayed pass was also tried, but without much success. When gains were made, they were, for the most part, the result of either straight football or end runs. The features of the practice were Newhall's running back of punts and Wendell's gains through the line. Hadden played a good game in the line, and followed the ball well, recovering one forward pass on the 20-yard line. In this case no score resulted, as the backs failed to gain their distance, and an attempt at a goal from the field was blocked...
...minute scrimmage between the University and second teams, before which there was a few minutes of preliminary work consisting mostly of signal practice. In the scrimmage, the University team scored two touchdowns, and the second one. The practice was characterized by the inability of either team to gain consistently, and by the consequent exchanges of punts which took place throughout the period. Though many forward passes and onside kicks were attempted by both teams, very few of them resulted in gains, while a number of penalties for uncompleted passes were inflicted. However, successful forward passes made possible both...
...first game of the season, yesterday afternoon, the Junior eleven was defeated by Milton Academy by the score of 6 to 0. The Junior eleven showed good team play, considering the short time it has been practicing, but it could not gain through Milton's line, and was too slow to make long end runs possible. Evarts made the only substantial gain for the Juniors, running a punt back 45 yards. The Milton team, although largely composed of second-team men, played a hard game, but was not able to gain consistently on account of fumbling. It made its best...
Almost immediately Wendell came back with another run for 20 yards, and again the second got the ball on an intercepted forward pass, and punted. Newhall then worked his quarterback run for a 20-yard gain around right end and followed it by an onside kick, which Nourse recovered on the second's 15-yard line. Here the second held an punted to Newhall who rushed the ball back 25 yards. Wendell again worked an onside kick to Houston on the 20-yard line. Newhall tried a forward pass, which failed, the ball going behind the second's line...
After the punt-out to the first team, Rand, on a tandem through left tackle, gained 20 yards on one play and five on the next. Newhall then threw a for- ward pass to Fish on the 5-yard line. A tandem was thrown back for a loss, and Newhall tried a pass to Wendell on the 4-yard line. A left-tackle plunge failed to gain, and on the subsequent forward pass, Davis fell on the ball behind the line for the second touchback, when time was called...