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...less than a minute after play had begun. He also kicked the goal. The next touchdown came more slowly. E. Kendall's ten yards, made on the kick-off, twenty more on the next play and Kernan's run of thirty yards around right end, took the ball to the ten yard line. I. W. Kendall made the touchdown on the next play, and J. Lawrence kicked the goal. After the next kick-off the three backs carried the ball to the thirty yard line by a series of short gains on plunges through the line, the tandem formation succeeding...
Work concluded with the lining up of four elevens composed of the most promising men for fifteen minute halves. In the scrimmages of the first eleven against the third Gierasch scored for the first eleven on the third play after the kick-off by running half the length of the field for a touchdown. First Eleven. Third Eleven. Pruyn, r.e. l.e., B. Taylor J. Lawrence, r.t. l.t., R. Lawrence Barnard, r.g. l.g., Jackson Sargent, c. c., Greene Lee, l.g. r.g., Rainsford Knowlton, l.t. r.t., Lewis Hawkins, l.e. r.e. Hutchinson Daly, Sherlock, q.b. q.b., L. Daly Kendall, Derby, r.h.b. l.h.b., Boyd...
...Yale eleven was now utterly demoralized and the Harvard backs gained at will. Stillman missed a goal from the field, and then Clark scored on a double pass, after a run of 30 yards. Fierce rushing by Graydon on the kick-off, and on plunges into the line scored the eighth touchdown. For the rest of the game the Harvard backs tore up the Yale line for steady five and ten yard rushes and gained two more touchdowns...
Burnett's first kick-off went over the goal posts, and the second was forced to kick off from the twenty-five yard line. The first eleven started vigorous rushes inside of tackle and through centre, which soon gave Ellis the chance to score through Wheeler. Lawrence kicked all the goals after the four touchdowns. Two were so far to the side as to necessitate punt outs...
...short halves were played, in which the substitutes scored twice. Parker returned the kick-off, and gained fifteen yards. The second could not gain, and started to play a kicking game. The substitutes gained steadily, until Parker made a fair catch upon the forty-two yard line; and Warren kicked a goal from the field. During the remainder of the half the substitutes rushed the ball down the field by varying straight football with occasional double passes. At the ten yard line, the second eleven made a stand, and secured the ball on downs when time was called...