Word: hole
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Winter and Hinkey made a hole between Newell and Hallowell, and McClung slipped through for another substantial gain. Morrison, Heffelfinger, Winter, McCormick and McClung in turn did the ground gaining and got through Harvard's line at almost every rush...
Harvard started off the play from the twenty-five yard line. Lake was put behind the V and got five yards toward the left. Then Corbett tried to find a hole between Hallowell and Newell. He got through for two yards and then Winter's grip enveloped him. Emmons did some clever blocking off, and Lake got around his end for eight yards...
Heffelfinger made a little hole which Bliss squeezed through for a slight gain. Then Winter essayed to get through Dexter and McClung around Hallowell's end. Both were vain attempts and it was Yale's third down and five yards to gain. Bliss fell back and sent a low punt to Corbett who made the fair catch on Harvard's 36-yard line...
Bliss caught the ball on Yale's 35-yard line. On the first down he made four yards between Waters and Emmons. McCormick made two more in the hole prepared by Morison and Sanford. Then Bliss and McClung tried the old criss-cross trick. Hallowell and Newell broke through and spoiled it, downing the Yale captain with a loss. No gain and Bliss punted out of bounds. Trafford got the ball, Hallowell touched it in bounds and gained two yards. The Harvard forwards did no effective interfering and again Trafford punted to Bliss. He attempted to run but Newell downed...
...team is light and not yet shaken together but quarter-back Wrenn kept the play fast and hard and in this the secret of the good score lay. The blocking off was fair, the worst tendency being for the blocker to get in the hole himself instead of making it wider...