Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although most of the Eastern college football schedules are still in the making it is evident from those that have been announced and from reports abroad that intersectional games will be featured to a great extent among next autumn's gridiron contests. In the intersectional games played during the past season the Eastern college elevens have more than won their share of victories. During October and November Eastern teams participated in 18 intersectional games against Southern or Middle Western elevens, winning 15, tying 2 and losing one. In the six games played against Middle Western teams five were...
...operation. The trouble with Harvard this season was that the line was not strong enough to protect the backfield till it got under way; in consequence the opposing players got through and stripped Harvard's secret plays of all their mystery. . . . . It is a surprising feature of this gridiron season to see the Crimson down to sixth place in the ranking of the teams...
Gilroy, of Georgetown, and Oliphant, of the Army, were the biggest individual point scorers of the Eastern gridiron this season. The Georgetown player has scored 188 points by 18 touchdowns and 30 goals from touchdown, while Oliphant achieved his score of 124 points with 15 touchdowns, 22 goals from touchdown and four goals from the field. Strupper, of Georgia Tech., who stands third in scoring honors, has crossed the goal line one more time than Oliphant, but he has only three goals form touchdown to his credit. The forth man in rank of individual high scoring is Fitzpatrick, of Boston...
...first time under Haughton's regime that the Blue eleven has been able to cross our goal line. Such a series of glorious conquests must not be forgotten at a time of temporary defeat. Yale won a close, fiercely-contested battle and won with a superior football machine. Every gridiron contest is decided to a greater or less degree by the so-called breaks of the game. The advantages of this character certainly were with the Blue, combined with these was a well-trained, powerful unit--the combination which spelled victory for Yale...
...University was kept so constantly in its own half of the gridiron that there was little chance for developing a forward passing game. All told, the Crimson tried 12 passes, but of these nine were in the fourth quarter. Two were successful, four intercepted and the remainder incompleted. In the final period C. A. Coolidge '17 caught a 31-yard pass from H. C. Flower '19, which put the ball on Yale's 35-yard line, but evidently it was decided to try for a touchdown and victory rather than for a probable field goal and a tie score...