Word: goals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Crimson's only Brown weekend victory, the Yardling booters controlled the play throughout, allowing almost no action around their own goal...
...second freshman goal came on a penalty kick at 12:50 of the second quarter. Charlie Ufford's free kick was safely beyond the goalie's leftward leap...
Harvard scored first on a long run by Captain Joe Eaton who passed to Hollis French ten yards from the goal. French pushed his way past two McGill backs and touched down between the uprights, John Densmore's attempt to convert failed, and the Crimson...
Enright has been almost all the home games since then, and up until a few years ago he used to make the trip to New Haven. Naturally, he can reminisce with the best of them. It seems the late Percy Haughton was the local originator of post-game goal post demolition, a pastime which was to increase in popularity later on. Haughton was coaching at Cornell at the time and came down to watch a Harvard-Yale game. "He always was a playboy," recalls Enright...
Harvard has always used wooden goal posts except for one game about 14 years ago when metal posts were tried. The steel markers were uprooted in four or five hours, carried over the bridge, and dumped into the river. One of the posts got firmly entrenched in an upright position and caused so much trouble to passing shells before it could be removed that the authorities went back to wooden posts...