Word: got
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rushers heads that the Stevens men had plenty of time to return it, giving our men a chance to fumble the ball, which they gladly accepted, and there might have been trouble if Butler had not dropped on the ball. On a muff by the Stevens half-back, Remington got the ball and carried it well down the field, and when they next lined up Fletcher carried it five yards further. Then there was some more first-class fumbling by the Harvard half-backs, and Harvard lost ground steadily, the Stevens half-back getting the ball once and coming clean...
...yard line. Soon Harvard dropped on it and had a down. Fletcher immediately passed it out and Slade secured a touchdown at 4.15. Between this and 4.45, three more touchdowns were made, the ball hardly going outside the twenty five yard line. From the last, Brooks got a goal...
...high tackling of our men showed itself when they attempted to stop him. During this ten minutes Ames went under half a dozen Harvard men; that is, if he had stood up straight, those half dozen would have caught him just below his shoulders, and not one would have got under his thrust...
...rest of the game Porter played in Boyden's place, and Boyden took Fletcher's. The ball was kept in Tuft's 25-yard line nearly all the time, and Harvard's play was characterized by its dropping the ball several times. Porter scored a touchdown from which Brooks got a goal; and with a safety by the Tufts the score reached 46 points. At 5.20 the referee called game on account of the growing darkness...
...Techs finally got the ball very near their goal line. Wadsworth made a good kick, but the ball was immediately returned, aud a safety was the result. Holden, in falling hurt his ankle quite severely, and was obliged to retire, Morse taking his place...