Word: gained
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...open practice for at least the last 15 minutes of two days each week. Is not the system of uninterrupted secret practice, every day, too commercial for a college football team? Give us a chance not only to have our loyalty aroused by mass meetings, but let us each gain a personal enthusiasm in the team and every player by getting in closer touch with them at their practices! Is it not as important to get the enthusiastic support of the whole student body as to work out tricks in secret? Coaches, give us a chance! and fellows, every...
Three scrimmages have been held by the Freshmen during the week between the first and second teams. In all of these the first team men have allowed the second to gain consistently until late in the scrimmages, when they seemed to find themselves and overwhelm their lighter opponents...
During the remaining periods the second team stiffened up but were unable to gain consistently. Their only chance to score was lost when McCall failed on a drop kick from the 30-yard line...
...finding holes and charging low, while the ends and backs worked with Coaches Parker and Chatfield. Coolidge, Little, Smith, and Weatherhead ran down under the punts, trying to break up the tandem formations of the backs. The linemen held a short fake scrimmage with the second team to gain speed in blocking shift plays, in which the latter had little difficulty in puzzling its opponents' line...
...prettiest sort of open field work. Reynolds was waiting to catch one of Sprackling's punts on Harvard's 40-yard line when Potter, rushing in front of him, caught the ball on the run, and circled the left end of the entire Brown team for a gain of 67 yards. He was forced out of bounds by Bartlett on Brown's 3-yard line...