Word: goal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Graduates took the south goal and Russell kicked off. Cozzens caught the ball and returned it. Curtis was given the ball and made five yards. Then Hayes gained 20 yards through Sargent and Lewis. Curtis and Hayes again made gains and Waters fumbled. With the ball on Harvard's 30-yard line Brown kicked to the middle of the field, but the ball was given to Harvard on her own 10-yard line for off-side play...
...these games it is true we were so far ahead and in another so far behind that this failure to kick goals did little more than alter the relative size of the score. But in two of these games the Harvard lead was so small that a goal from the field would have sufficed to turn the tables; in two it practically took away all chance of tying the score; in the Pennsylvania game of last year it made us lose the pluckiest game I have ever seen on a football field. It is true that in the last game...
...during the two preceding years I frequently went down to practice. I saw plenty of punting and drop kicking, but I did not see a single attempt at a place kick. This year I have not heard of any change. It seems a peculiar thing that the one goal in last year's Pennsylvania game, the only important goal we have kicked from a touchdown in three years, should have been kicked by a substitute. As I said before, I do not wish to croak, but I am beginning to tire of asking myself, "if our opponents kick their goals...
...ball remained in Cornell's territory for the remainder of the half. Brown missed a try at goal from the 30 yard line just before time was called...
This brought the ball to the 15-yard line. Brown and Dunlop then made the distance. Brown missed the goal. Score...