Word: games
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...conservative, close formation game, the 1921 football team defeated the heavier Radio School eleven by a score of 6 to 0, Saturday afternoon. The Freshmen did not show remarkable team play, but Coach Wallace is hopeful of a later development of the excellent material on hand. The line plunges of E. Stillman '21, and R. C. Humphrey, '21 and the latter's punting were prominent features of the contest. The score came at the opening of the second period. Stillman made a 17 yard gain, followed by three plunges by Humphrey through guard and tackle the last of which crossed...
...informal University football team opened its season Saturday with a 27 to 0 victory over Dean Academy, in a game of straight and rather elementary football. The University team out-weighed and outplayed the preparatory school eleven, but the Dean player forced hard play throughout the game. Captain W. B. Snow '18, was easily the star of the University line, making holes again and again for the backs, and stopping many opposing rushes. He was ably seconded in this work by T. S. Woods '20, playing at left tackle. In the backfield, the hard-hitting line plunges of A. Horween...
...Harvard football team has played its first game of the season and won. In other years this would be a statement to excite no comment. It would be a matter of course. But there is a great significance in the fact this year...
This was a very different game from the opening games of other seasons. It was played on a strange field almost unheralded and unattended. There was no squad of forty or fifty men to come dashing on the field from the locker building, led by a Brickley or a Mahan. No staff of coaches and managers followed. A bare squad of twenty-two men, with one coach and one manager, was all there was no cheer from the Harvard stands met it, for there was no Harvard stand. The red jerseys and stockings were all that distinguished...
...Freshman team practised on a heavy field with a water-soaked ball in preparation for the game today with the Radio School on Soldiers' Field at 2.30. The three first teams were put through a long dummy scrimmage to perfect the plays and familiarize the men with the signals. Inasmuch as the contest will be only practice short periods will be played...