Word: goal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...marked in the centre of the court and a string is stretched over the back line on each side, seven feet above the ground. The game is ordinarily played with five men on a side. Points are scored as follows: Putting the ball between two pairs of the opponents' goal pins counts ten; knocking down a goal post five; forcing the ball back under the line three; a foul by stepping over the centre line, two for the opponents; a foul by throwing the ball over the string at the rear of the court, one for the opponents...
...Cambridge Manual Training School football team, in a game with ninety-six, Saturday afternoon, was defeated by a score of 20 to 0. Both sides played very loosely. For ninety-six, Scott made good gains and three times carried the ball over the opposing eleven's goal line...
Hayes did good work for the first eleven, making a clean dash through tackle and guard for a touchdown, and again by a run of 20 yards around the end. Jackson made some good rushes, but fumbled badly near the second eleven's goal line. In the course of the play Brown '98 was laid off with a lame ankle...
Exeter again took the ball. This time Brown caught it and made 25 yards. Wrightington then made another run of 50 yards, landing the ball for another touchdown. The third goal was made with as little trouble as the two preceding ones, and two more were added before time was called...
Yale, 28; Brown, 0.[N. E. Associated Press.]NEW HAVEN, CONN., Oct. 3. - Brown University played Yale a fine practice game this afternoon, the blue winning in two fifteen minute halves, by the score of 28 to 0. Brown rushed the ball within two yards of Yale's goal within a minute after play had been started. All the Brown gains were made through Judd. Yale scored 12 points the first half and 16 in the second half. There were many unfortunate accidents, Coombs, Thorne, Millard and Dennison receiving bad cuts on the head. DeWitt and Thorne made two touchdowns...