Word: gain
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Harvard's average gain by rushing was 3 1-10 yards, and Yale's was 2 9-10 yards. Harvard's punts averaged 31 yards and Yale's, 32 4-10 yards. In running back kicks the University eleven averaged 4 4-10 yards, its opponents, 10 7-10 yards...
...second half the University team made 17 rushed for a total gain of 54 yards and a loss of 15 yards. Yale in 30 rushes gained 92 yards and lost 7. Harvard punted 6 times for a distance of 149 yards, and Yale in 8 attempts made 235 yards. Each team ran back kicks twice, Harvard making 16 yards, and Yale 39. The University team fumbled three times and lost the ball every time. Yale made one fumble but regained the ball. Harvard was penalized 20 yards and Yale...
...first half the University team rushed 11 times for a gain of 35 yards and for a loss of 13 years; Yale rushed 53 times, gaining 151 yards and losing 9. The University team punted 5 times for a total distance of 193 yards; Yale made 89 yards in 2 punts. Harvard ran kicks back twice for a total gain of 28 yards and Yale ran them back 5 times for a gain of 79 yards. Each team fumbled three times, twice losing the ball. Harvard was penalized 7 yards, and Yale...
...rushes. Sperry was sent back to punt but because of a high pass got off the kick with great difficulty, the ball going to Harvard's 50-yard line. Shevlin in an attempt to run around the opposite end from his position was stopped by Matthews with a gain of only 1 yard. A series of line plays, in which Morse, Flinn and Bloomer carried the ball, and a gain of 3 yards by Rockwell around right end brought the ball to Harvard's 10-yard line. From this point, Yale's powerful line attacks yielded shorter and shorter gains...
After Matthews' place had been taken by Pruyn, Shevlin ran Sperry's kick-off in 19 yards to his 29-yard line. Parker stopped a fake kick without gain and Hoyt punted to Starr, who ran the ball back 11 yards from Harvard's 43-yard line. One rush by Mills and three by Hurley took the ball to Yale's 43-yard line where it was lost on a fumble. On Yale's second play Hoyt on a fake kick was thrown for a loss of 5 yards. Yale lost 15 yards for holding and Hoyt punted...