Word: goals
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Perhaps one of the best rules would be that if in case an eleven did not lose the ball between the successive safeties, the ball should be brought out at right angles to the goal line, from the mark of the second safety, and be given to their opponents for a down on the former's twenty-five or thirty-five yard line. This would make the kick-off after a safety almost necessary, but at the same time should this rule be put into effect, the distance from the poles and the position of the ball would probably...
Princeton defeated Columbia Saturday by a score of three goals and one touchdown to nothing. Columbia's playing was weak, although distinguished by the fine rushing and kicking of Morgan. On Princeton's side Haxall as usual excelled in kicking, while fine work was done in rushing and tackling by Peace. Princeton secured but two touchdowns, from only one of which a goal was kicked. The other two goals were kicked from the field by Haxall. Columbia touched down for safety five times...
...Morison's rush. Soon, however, Yale's half-back, taking advantage of the wind, sent the ball by a high punt far into Harvard's territory, and Hull receiving the ball from a down carried it over our line by a pretty rush and scored a touchdown, but no goal was kicked. Yale now commenced the contemptible game she resorted to last fall, and in a few minutes nearly every man in her rush line was warned and threatened with disqualification either for foul tackling or for jumping on and fouling the backs. It was an exhibition which will...
...play was again begun, and Harvard attempted to brace, but their tends were lamed and nervous from the repeated fouling of the Yale rush line, and they fumbled the ball several times, giving two touchdowns to Yale through Beck and Farwell, from which one goal was kicked by Richards. The ball was brought out and kicking by Keith and Mason carried the ball up the field. Appleton and Kendall did good tackling, while Cabot and Morison gained considerable ground by their rushing. Adams, the substitute, did his work almost perfectly and made a great success of this his first appearance...
...picked eleven of the Memorial Hall waiters were defeated by the Brunswick Hotel waiters on Boston Common yesterday, by a score of one goal to nothing. Much excitement prevailed...