Word: goal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yale's second score was made after Thorne had failed to kick a goal from the field, and Harvard had the ball on her own 5 yard line. Hayes was signalled for a kick and responded by punting out of bounds with a loss of one yard. Thorne then went through for the other touchdown...
...only points Harvard made which were counted were won by hard work, and just after Yale had scored her first points, Fairchild made an excellent try for a goal from the field. The ball hit the cross-bar and Butterworth caught it, and was thrown back of the goal by Waters, thus making a safety. This did not count, as Referee Boviard had thought it best to blow his whistle just before Butterworth fell. Thorne punted to the 35 yard line and, as Captain Hinkey happened to be in the way of the ball, it went to Harvard...
Just as the whistle blew at the end of the game Fairchild kicked a beautiful goal from the field. This also the referee refused to count, as he claimed the ball was put in play after the whistle had sounded...
Harvard played a far stronger game than was expected. Besides the excellent team play and interference, the individual players made every effort count towards getting the ball to the goal. This was shown in the way the men tackled, throwing their man always in the right direction and in a manner to prevent his making any further gain. The backs when tackled showed the same efforts to make the small points count. Harvard outplayed Yale in rushing the ball and in defensive work...
...deal, for the game may be largely a kicking one. Brewer is by no means the poor punter he has been considered for the past month, but he cannot punt as Butterworth does. Moreover, there is nobody on the Harvard team who can be relied upon to kick a goal from the field, while Butterworth is the most skillful drop kicker on any team today. Even he, however, rarely does better than one goal in three, so that he is not likely to try for a goal from the field unless hard pressed...