Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Gain or '92-93 '93-94 loss...
...except Stewart and Harding, gave them their attention. Praise was given to the second, blame to the first. It was just what the first eleven needed. If the second can be kept up to the standard set yesterday, the first will be obliged to have almost perfect interference to gain against them, precisely as they will at Springfield...
Long runs were not so common as in earlier games, but all the backs were sure to make some gain, enough to keep the ball. There was one long run, however, that has not been beaten this year. Corbett ran sixty yards and scored. The whole eleven were in this play. Acton, Mackie, Stevenson, Fairchild and Dunlop were especially prominent. And it seems to be the case with the eleven that if the opposing rush line do not break through before they get started, they can make at least 25 yards at a time...
Ninety-seven started with the ball, but after short gains lost it on a poor kick. This they repeated after Hopkinson's had failed to gain: and in a scrimmage which followed, Nourse broke away and scored a touchdown, from which the goal was kicked. The touchdown in the second half was made on Brooks' long run around the end from near the center of the field. No goal...
Corbett had an off day. His running was, as a rule, as brilliant as ever, but he showed once or twice a tendency to run backwards when he saw that he was about to be tackled without gain. This is an old weakness of his, and one against which he has striven every year. Besides this, his interference was not so good as usual...