Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hard-fought and exciting game played in a driving rain on Soldiers Field, Saturday, the Freshman football team tied Exeter, neither side scoring...
This afternoon at 3.30 o'clock the Freshman football team will play its first game in Cambridge on the University field. The game will be a hard one as Exeter has an exceptionally strong team, averaging 175 pounds, and so far has defeated Tufts, Bates, Bowdoin and New Hampshire, without being scored upon...
During a long and hard practice yesterday the University team scored three touchdowns, two by Nichols on runs of 40 and 50 yards respectively and one by Randall on a 35-yard run. Particular attention was paid by the coaches to fumbling. Owing to the interchange of men on the two teams, their strength was evenly balanced and each held the other frequently for downs. Both Parkinson and Knowlton, tackles, ran with the ball in the signal practice, but no attempt was made at this in the scrimmage...
...punts off only made matters worse. Carrick was ineffective in the line, and a bad pass by him helped complete the ill-success of the punting. Bowditch played his usual good game at right end, and on the other side of the line, Parkinson at left tackle, played hard and low. Of the backs, Hurley made the most distance, going around the end several times for substantial gains, but his fumble of Shay's kick in the second half was fatal. Nesmith was responsible for two fumbles, and Hanley...
...practice yesterday was fairly snappy and on the whole encouraging. Although the scrimmage was short and rather uninteresting, the men played hard and showed some aggressiveness. The only touchdown was made for the University eleven by Hurley during the first two or three minutes of play, after a series of rushes from the second's 25-yard line...