Word: goal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard 45 yard line McCormick gained 5 yards but Jenkins lost ten by a bad pass and Bliss fell on the ball. Bliss then made a pretty run around Wrenn's end for 15 yards. McCormick lost three yards by Waters' good tackle. Bliss then tried for a goal from the field, but the ball hit a Harvard man and bounded around a good deal until a Yale man dropped on it at the Harvard 15 yard line. Good tackling by Newell and Shea and steady blocking in the centre prevented Yale from gaining any more and the ball went...
...right end. He passed Wreun and Shea by interference of his rushers. Corbett by speed, Gage by dodging, and was finally brought down by Newell on the five yard line and hurt. After short runs by Lewis and McCormick, the latter scored a touchdown from which Bliss kicked no goal. Time was then called with the score 4 to 0 in favor of Yale...
...second half the Harvard freshmen did rather better work and went at it with a great deal more snap. Yale was very much over-ma chod and perhaps the score with Corbett's goal from the field counted in, would give a fairer idea of the strength of the teams than the score which was actually given...
Corbett tried for a goal but the ball went very low and one of the Yale rushers, somewhat rattled, stopped it at the five yard line...
...second half Slayback ran nearly the entire length of the field and scored a touchdown and kicked the goal. Later on Wesleyan scored again...