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Toward the last few minutes of practice, Ex-captain Wrightington coached the team on getting down the field on the kick-off, and protecting the runner by the formation of interference. In one of these trials, Cozzens carried the ball 50 yards behind the strongest kind of interference...
Brown was beaten by Harvard last Saturday by the score of 18 to 0. Not only was Brown prevented from scoring, but only once did she force the ball into Harvard's territory to any alarming extent, and that through Harvard's carelessness in fumbling the second kick-off. The Brown eleven were clearly outplayed. They succeeded in gaining their distance by rushing, only three times, and were unable to hold the Harvard line for downs. Harvard, on the other hand, plunged through their line almost at will, and proved herself to be unusually strong on the defense, Brown being...
...starts. Dibblee played his usual star game, and by following his interference more closely, covered much ground on end plays. Sullivan made many good gains until he was injured and forced to leave the game. Aside from his deplorable failures at goal kicking, and his fumble of the second kick-off, Brown played a fair game, rushing hard and tackling strongly at times...
...first five minutes the ball was always in the 'Varsity's territory. The first touchdown was made by Parker on an end run of 80 yards. On the kick-off Daly ran 25 yards. Then the 'Varsity braced up and between Wheeler and Parker nearly all of Reid's punts were blocked. The ball was worked steadily to the 10-yard line and Cozzens covered the remaining distance around left end, for the second touchdown...
...second half Reid caught the ball on the kick-off and ran 90 yards with it for a touchdown. He also kicked the goal. For the rest of the half the play was in the middle of the field except near the end when Manual Training School held the ball on 1901's fifteen yard line but lost it on downs. Daly in the last minute of play carried the ball over the line, but the touchdown was not allowed, owing to the crowd of spectators who had swarmed on to the field and interfered with the players...