Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...score came early in the second period when E. C. Tatham '31 scored on a well placed shot from scrimmage. From this point on the Harvard team kept the ball in enemy territory for the majority of the time, but due to the lack of coordination of the forward line they were unable to score again...
...spectacular runs by Booth, the Yale captain and halfback, forced the Crimson to take the defensive deep in their own territory early in the game. But a counter-attack due largely to the superb broken field play of F.J. Gilligan '32, brought the wall to the Blue one-foot line at the opening of the second period. A stubborn Eli defense resisted and took the ball on cowns. A second time a vicious assault in which Gilligan figured prominently carried the ball to the three-yard line, where the Yale forward wall again held firm...
Yale several times pushed the ball to a scoring position when Booth forced his way to the five-yard line in a series of brilliant open field runs. But in each case the Harvard line resisted the attack...
...third quarter was marked by the resort on both sides to an aerial game, which proved threatening but ineffective, and it was not until the middle of the final period that Gilligan slid through the Yale line to place the Crimson once more in scoring position on the three-yard line. Four downs were required to push the score across. Bernard White '32 kicked the goal...
...last quarter the Bruin Freshmen staged a final bid for a touchdown with a hard-hitting march down half the length of the field, but were held on downs at Harvard's 30-yard line...