Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard will play the close, driving game, pushing and plunging ahead with no let up so long as they can make their five yards. Yale will play for more carefully planned opportunities, varying her game with an occasional kick and manipulating her men with greater rapidity and more precision. Princeton will play the most dashing forward game of them all. Her rushers will get through more quickly and sharply and will be down the field faster on a kick. She will take far greater chances than any of the rest, and while not playing much faster than Yale, will...
Time was called at 3 o'clock, Wesleyan having the ball. Wesleyan gained fifteen yards in the first rush, but lost it immediately by the good work of the Harvard rushers. McDonald then punted to Porter, who returned the kick. Wesleyan got the ball, but it went to Harvard for foul holding by the Wesleyan end rush. Fitzhugh gained ten yards and five yards more were given for off-side play by Wesleyan. Wesleyan got the ball on a fumble and kicked. Harvard's down. Rushes by Trafford, Porter and Sears and a kick by Sears brought the ball...
...second half was only twenty minutes long. Rushes by Dean, Porter and Fitzhugh advanced the ball twenty-three yards, when it went to Wesleyan on a fumble the Wesleyan back muffed a pass, and Harvard getting the ball, Sears punted to the fifteen-yard line. Trafford stopped the return kick and dropped on the ball, making the sixth touchdown for Harvard. Fitzhugh kicked a goal. No points were made; but Wesleyan nearly scored against Harvard, when a hard punt of Sears was stopped and the ball rolled nearly to Harvard's line, where Wesleyan dropped on it. The Harvard rushers...
...Havard '92 resulted in a bad defeat for the freshmen. The rushers failed to get through the opposing rush-line, and were slow in dropping on the ball, while the backs fumbled badly. Two halves of thirty minutes each were played. Play began at 2.35. Harvard having the kick-off. Brooks gained fifteen yards on a rush but the ball was soon lost on four downs. Harvard gained possession of it again near her twenty-yard line, but a fumble by Baker allowed Crosby to get it and he easily made the first touchdown. Time, seven minutes-no goal...
Harvard brought the ball out to the twenty-five yard line and passed to Perry, who was downed before he had made any substantial advance. Failing to advance the ball by rushing, Harvard was forced to kick the ball; it was well returned by Bliss and badly fumbled by Palmer, allowing Andover to secure it in Harvard's territory. The lost ground was soon regained by good work, but the ball was again lost to Andover by a fumble. C. A. Bliss ran around the end of the Harvard line and would have secured a touchdown had he not been...