Word: muff
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...touchdown at 3.03. Goal; 26-0. Bancroft makes a good tackle of Manchester when the ball comes out. On four downs, Harvard takes the ball. Sears scores. No goal. Trafford catches it on the fly and touches it to the ground. Score 36-0. Cumnock gets the ball on muff of half-back. Sears carries it to ten-yard line. Wesleyan makes a safety. Score 38-0. Cumnock gets ball again on fumble, and Sears touches ball down behind posts. Score 44-0. 3.14 o'clock. Harvard has the ball on four downs. Woodman and Porter advance the ball. Holden...
...kicked over. Soon Harvard got the ball and Harding squirmed through and made the first touchdown. No goal. Score 4-0. In three minutes the second touchdown was made by Porter. Goal. Score 10-0. The ball was kicked out and Tech brought the ball, on an excusable muff of Harvard's half-back, near our goal. A good rush by Wood was followed by a magnificent rush by Harding who scored the third touchdown. Goal made the score 16-0. Bad work by Tech allowed Bancroft to make the fourth touchdown followed by a goal making the score...
...This time a goal was kicked. Score, 10-0 in Harvard favor. The ball then went back to the center of the field, and after a series of fumbles by the Harvard backs, Holden gets the ball and makes the third touchdown. No goal. The Harvard backs continue to muff, and Exeter drives the Harvard team to the 25-yard line. After a series of rushes by Exeter, the ball comes within three feet of the Harvard, and it looks very much like a touchdown for Exeter, but on the fourth down the ball is given to Harvard and Saxe...
...Stagg got a life on an excusable error by Wiestling, was advanced to third on Kellogg's single and came in on Willard's error, Kellogg in the meanwhile going to second. Noyes knocked a high fly Wiestling, which was nicely captured Hunt got his base on Willard's muff and Kellogg scored on the same error. Hunt stole second and got out on third, Henshaw to Campbell...
...seniors braced a little in the fourth and shut Eighty-eight out with three men left on bases. Eighty-eight however, took vengeance for this in the next inning by making seven runs, on three bases on balls, Power's muff of Thayer's fly, two sacrifices and Bailey's single. Another run was added in the sixth on Gallivan's and Bailey's singles. After two men were out in the seventh, Foss made a two-bagger but was left on second by Thayer's out at first. A wild throw, a muffed thrown ball and several passed balls...