Word: goals
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first game in the college championship was played Wednesday afternoon, on the Polo Grounds, between Princeton and Columbia. The game was a foregone conclusion, and it only remained to be seen how badly Princeton would beat their opponents. Princeton kicked off, and scored a goal in less than a quarter of an hour. Another touchdown and goal soon followed, and still another. The fourth goal was scored by a kick from the field, making a score of 4 goals and 1 touchdown in the first half. in the second another touchdown was made by Princeton, but no goal...
...though the game as a whole was not particularly exciting, still a number of quite brilliant plays from time to time made it interesting for a while. Amherst kicked off at 2.40, and in three minutes Harvard scored a touch-down through Wesselhoeft from which Mason kicked a goal. During the rest of the three quarters the ball was on Amherst's territory most of the time, and three or four times Harvard narrowly missed scoring, but nothing was gained by either side. In the second three quarters Amherst started off well but was met with a steady resistance...
...other side, but no more, and accordingly the six New Yorkers were obliged to face nine wearers of the crimson. This superiority in numbers, it is possible, decided the game in Harvard's favor, for after the first desperate onslaught of New York the ball seldom threatened their opponents' goal. The six made it lively however at all times, and through their very paucity in numbers were able to show their fine running and dodging...
...match them in these particulars, but wisely stuck to their usual tactics, seldom running with the ball, but forcing the attack by a series of passes from one man to another. By this plan New York was unable to cover her opponents, and as her men grew tired successive goals were made on her, each in shorter time than the preceding. The third goal was made before fifty minutes, and by it the Oelrichs cup came into the possession of Harvard...
...such speculation is useless, yet we have reason to congratulate our team on playing so good a game, even under these circumstances. New York brought on the best men in her team - in fact, she borrowed one of the famous Shamrocks of Canada. That Harvard could, without losing a goal, sustain the attack of these wily old "Canucks" is no mean proof of her ability to meet them on a fair field with no favors. Wheeler, Flannery, Journeay, Morison, Ritchie and Tucker made up the New York team. Eaton, Davis, Rueter, Noble (capt.), Ennis, Thorndike, Marquand, Noyes and Woods played...