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Word: goal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Brookline High School yesterday in a practice game on Soldiers Field. The teams were very evenly matched and neither side was able to score in the first half. In the second half 1900 had an entirely new team and managed to make a touchdown, from which they kicked a goal. Brookline High then braced up, and for the rest of the game played hard, breaking through the line for a gain of twenty yards a few minutes before time was called...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1900, 6; Brookline High, O. | 10/22/1896 | See Source »

...first half Ninety-nine kicked off and Hopkinson rushed the ball back to '99's ten yard line, then after exchanging kicks Hopkinson pushed the ball over for a touchdown and Stillman kicked a goal. During the rest of the half the ball was continually in Ninety-nine's territory and Hopkinson by blocking two of Ninety-nine's kicks, made a second touchdown, but failed to kick a goal. The half closed with the ball in Ninety-nine's territory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hopkinson School, 10; '99, 0. | 10/21/1896 | See Source »

...every one except the fullback, and once Fultz looked as if he had a clear field. Cozens, however, did some fast sprinting and caught him on the 10-yard line. Here Harvard's line held strongly and Brown had to give up the ball on downs. Harvard's goal was not threatened again during the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD, 12; BROWN, 0. | 10/19/1896 | See Source »

Princeton defeated West Point at West Point, Saturday, eleven to nothing in a stubbornly played game. Princeton fumbled a good deal and her passing was slow; but her interference was good and Baird's punting excellent. He succeeded in kicking a goal from the field and made Princeton's only touchdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton, 11; West Point, 0. | 10/19/1896 | See Source »

During the first half the playing was mostly in the territory of the first eleven. Once the second eleven pushed the ball down to within a yard of the first's goal line, but here the first took a firm stand and got the ball on downs. After this Lewis scored a touchdown for the first on a fluke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARDER PRACTICE. | 10/16/1896 | See Source »

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