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...Second Half.- Harding ran up to 30 yard line at the beginning of the second half, but the rush line could carry it no farther and Pennsylvania got the ball and advanced 10 yards. Saxe slipped on punt, but Boyden got back to 30-yard line and soon rushed over the line. No goal, but Cumnock falls on the ball over line. Goal. Score, 26-0, Hyneman took Zeigler's place in the rush line and Zeigler went to half-back, as Wood was disqualified. On muff of the guard, Bowser, who was playing back, Harding secured the ball...
Princeton back got started and reached Holden on the run. Holden was severely hurt in tackling him, and Saxe took the position of half-back. Princeton was by this time at our twenty-five yard line. Price was stopped in his tracks. Porter and Boyden drove Princeton back. Bancroft carried the ball a few yards forward. Porter, Boyden and Saxe forged ahead. On four downs, Princeton kicked over the rush line. The half-backs carried the ball to Princeton's twenty-yard line. On the fourth down Boyden took the ball back twenty yards. Porter went ahead fifteen yards. Trafford...
...disqualified for tackling too low. Channing made a short run but Appleton seized him. The ball went to Harvard. Porter went through the Princeton rush line, and Ames tackled him by the neck. Boyden reached the 10-yard line. Princeton had the ball again, but Markoe tackled their half-back. Appleton made a good tackle. Harvard got the ball but lost it again, after Wagenhurst had stopped Porter. Piper, Appleton and Alexander did some good tackling and Harvard had the ball. It was passed to Boyden, who rushed through the Princeton men and dropped over the line, making the second...
Godfrey Brinley, last year's holder of the intercollegiate tennis championship, played half-back on the Trinity College eleven in the game with the "Techs" on the Union grounds, Saturday...
...make matters worse, every man back of the rush line seems to have gone to pieces. Morrison, one of the half-backs, is doing wretched work, and is not playing nearly so well as last season. Graves, the other half-back, from whom brilliant work was looked for, has broken his nose, and is temporarily laid up. In the mean time Stagg, the great pitcher of the 'Varsity ball nine, is taking his place. Stagg is a hard worker, and with practice will make a valuable addition to the team, but at present he lacks practice and experience...