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...loose playing throughout, resulted in three touchdowns for the first, all by straight football. Marshall ran the first kick in from the 20 to the 45-yard line, and then the ball was taken straight down the field, Harrison making the first touchdown. The second eleven received the next kick-off and Morris ran the ball in 7 yards to the 22-yard line. On two plays through the line, the second made first down, and then Morris made 10 yards around the end. After the second had gained a total of 16 yards, the University eleven took the ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINE CHARGES TOO HIGH. | 10/27/1903 | See Source »

Starting with a touchdown by Nichols on a run of 105 yards from the first kick-off, the University eleven scored a total of 29 points to Brown's 0 on Saturday, in a game which encourages the belief that the team is beginning to develop. The playing of the team, however, while superior to its previous work this year, showed numerous faults. Individually the playing showed brilliancy and effectiveness, but there was almost a total lack of offensive team-work, except in mass plays on tackle. Noticeable was the weakness of the line on the offensive, which operated against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN EASILY DEFEATED. | 10/26/1903 | See Source »

...first part of the game was much better than during the second half when only six points were added to the score. A sensational start was made when Nichols recovered Schoellkopf's fumble of the kick-off, and threading his way, with the aid of excellent interference, through the entire Brown team, ran 105 yards for a touchdown. Marshall kicked goal. After the next kick-off a series of exchanges of punts ended in a fumble which gave Harvard the ball on Brown's 28-yard line. From here gains by Hurley and Meier carried the ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN EASILY DEFEATED. | 10/26/1903 | See Source »

...HAVEN, CONN., Oct. 23.--The Yale University football team, after practice yesterday in signals and in the kick-off, left New Haven last evening, and spent the night at the Murray Hill Hotel, New York. Saturday morning the team will go to West Point, where it will be joined by the squad of substitutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Plays West Point Today. | 10/24/1903 | See Source »

...slow and lifeless and practically featureless. Two touchdowns were scored by the University eleven. The first one was made by Meier after the ball had been carried nearly to the goal line on a series of short line-plunges, from the 44-yard line. Soon after the second kick-off, the second team fumbled and lost the ball on its own 26-yard line, and from there the University eleven carried the ball, mainly by formation plays to the 1-yard line, and Parkinson took it over for a touchdown. The rushes averaged only about two yards, and several times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPEN PRACTICE TODAY. | 10/23/1903 | See Source »

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