Word: gain
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...yards. Schoellkopf makes two yards through right tackle. Derby goes through right tackle for three yards. Schoellkopf makes five yards, but then Harvard is penalized ten yards for off-side play, and LeMoyne punts. Yale gets the ball on her own 40-yard line. Yale fails to gain through left tackle, but on the next play Hogan hurdles the line for two yards...
Hogan takes the ball 3 yards through left tackle. Hogan makes it first down. Nichols is hurt. Mitchell fails to gain through left guard. Hogan gains 2 yards through centre...
...University had received the first kick-off. Mahoney fumbled the punt and the University eleven got the ball on the second's 20-yard line and carried it in four rushes to the 2-yard line. There it was lost on a fumble. As the second could not gain, Cruger punted to the second's 32-yard line. Four plays by the University eleven, including one through the line by Schoellkopf for 14 yards, carried the ball over. Knowlton scoring. Marshall kicked the goal...
...score, and most of the time was ahead, but the lead, when it existed, was so perilously small that the game was never considered won until the last touchdown gave a sufficiently commanding advantage. The Pennsylvania team was trained to the hour and never let slip an opportunity to gain an advantage. Through speed and alertness, they twice secured the ball on fumbles near Harvard's goal line, and by swift, determined attack forced through the Harvard line for the two touchdowns that gave them their 10 points...
...University team could hardly be identified with what has passed for team-play previously this season. In that particular the improvement was great and genuine. But in defensive play there was little reliability, little consistent strength. Occasionally a play was stopped with a loss: but usually if a gain was very much needed by Pennsylvania the Harvard team did not evidence strength enough to prevent it. Harvard once lost the ball on downs in midfield and again was unable in three tries to carry the ball across Pennsylvania's five-yard line...