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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard again often lost the ball on account of holding and off-side play. Stevenson was the worst offender and cost Harvard many yards. It was his fault that Brown got the ball in the early part of the first half when she made her touchdown. Rice and Doucette were also offenders...
...practice of the 'varsity football squad yesterday afternoon was full of snap. Waters seemed to put new life into the tacles as they showed considerable improvement. Stevenson was more successful on defensive work. In the offensive work he frequently broke through but after he got through he never accomplished anything. Especially was this true when he broke through on kicks. He never seemed really to try to stop the kick...
...Harvard Donald distinguished himself more than any man in the line; he tackled well, and repeatedly broke through and stopped kicks. A. Brewer and Cabot both made some fine tackles, but the latter was badly fooled twice on false kicks. Once Draper got around him for about 20 yards...
Williams kicked to the 5 yard line, where Dunlop took the ball, and by brilliant dodging gained over half the length of the field. Harvard soon lost the ball for off-side playing. Donald blocked Draper's punt. The ball changed hands several times until Gonterman got round Rutter with fine interference for 20 yards. On the next rush he found an opening at tackle and ran 40 yards unaided, for a tonchdown. Goal. Score...
Ninety-seven did the best work in the last two or three minutes of the first half. Ninety-nine had the ball on the 35-yard line and was obliged to kick on the third down. The ball was fumbled and '99 got it on the 15 yard line. Ninety-nine then got 10 yards on two snccessive off-side plays and the ball was on '97's 5 yard line. Ninety-seven then did some good defensive work and got the ball on four downs. Time was called with the ball on the ten yard line...