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Guernsey kicked off to behind goal, where Mahan received the ball and ran back twenty-five yards, to be tackled by Avery. Mahan no gain. Mahan punted to Yale's 25-yard line, where Ainsworth fumbled, but recovered...
Harvard penalized five yards for offside. Ainsworth made no gain, tackled by Hardwick. Knowles kicked to Harvard's 35-yard line. Mahan returned five yards. Bradlee made one yard through Warren. Hardwick lost one. Mahan punted to Wilson, who fumbled, but recovered on Yale's 32-yard line. Knowles gained two yards. Ainsworth made three. Knowles punted to Mahan on Harvard's 30-yard line, who returned the ball to Yale's 46-yard line. Brickley went through for six yards, tackled by Knowles. Brickley added another yard, tackled by Warren. Forward pass, Mahan to Hardwick, failed...
Among the more important lectures of the week was one delivered Wednesday afternoon by Professor Kirsopp Lake, who was been delivering a series at the Lowell Institute in Boston. He seemed much interested in American football, remarking that both England and American could gain greatly by an exchanged of playing tactics...
...Harvard has a good line, although yet to show its full strength, both offensively and defensively; a wonderful back-field, yet one which is powerless without support from the line, for there is neither a Wendell nor a Streit in the trio to gain a couple of yards when the two opposing lines are in a deadlock; a fair quarterback and fair kickers, and, lastly, a drop-kicker who full well realizes the responsibility of his work in the present style of game." L. WITHINGTON '11, in Boston Globe...
...keep the ball in Princeton's territory most of the time. In addition to his successful drop from the 30-yard time, Guernsey missed three others, none of them difficult. On one occasion, Yale made it first down on the 6-yard line, but in three plays could not gain substantially, and on the fourth, a short forward pass over the line, blundered clumsily,--all of which points to the fact that the Blue eleven lacked the scoring punch the crises...