Word: pass
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Team A's alert defense against the forward pass resulted in two of the touchdowns. Bradlee and Mahan each intercepted the ball and got clear for a long run across the second's goal line. The other touchdowns came on straight line rushing from simple formations. Brickley's lone drop kick was made from the 25-yard line. The first team followed the ball persistently and twice recovered the ball within scoring distance when the second's backs fumbled punts. Bradlee carried the ball more than usually yesterday but the extra work seemed to make no difference in his brilliant...
Featuring the play of the afternoon was a spectacular forward pass from Mahan to Hardwick for a 20-yard gain and a long end run by Willcox, who scored Team B's only touchdown...
...deliver the final stroke with kicking. What the use of artillery in modern warfare will mean in the end remains to be seen, but the comparison is made in the light of past experience. There is in kicking a unanimity of opinion not to be found in the forward pass. Kicking is not the "joker" that the forward pass is, for the reason that certain of its principles seem to be widely understood. It is the bulwark of defence, and ever since the onside kick has been legislated out of business, it is a valuable offensive weapon...
...Rutgers' styles of play respectively. Forming in open plays with precision, the Medford college eleven shot throught the weak New Hampshire defence, rolling up 84 points and shutting out its opponents. Brown defeated Norwich easily, 24 to 0. Brown's gains were mostly outside of tackle, but the forward pass was used twice for long distances. Gordon, the newly-recruited half-back, played phenomenal football, scoring three goals from the field as well as doing good work in the defence. Washington and Jefferson, although victorious over Mount Union by a 26 to 2 score, gained ground with great difficulty...
...students in Harvard College, except those who entered before 1910, must pass, by the end of their second year, a special oral examination to test their power of translating either French or German...