Word: pigskin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passes. Having been stopped dead on the one yard line in the opening period, the schoolboys early in the second canto, worked back to the 35-yard stripe. Here two passes, Brown to Kimball and Keesling to Broaca coupled with a seven yard run by the latter put the pigskin across the goal. Harvard worked some pretty laterals in the fourth period but could not get beyond the 22-yard stripe...
...have been tried, about 45 successfully completed. Even more encouraging is the fact that the Harvard eleven may boast of no mean ability in the forward passing game. J. W. Potter '30, 212-pound fullback, seems to be the main cog in the aerial machine and has flung the pigskin as far as fifty yards with unerring accurary. Under the light of such events, it seems most probable that spectators in the Stadium Saturday will see Harvard flash a diversified attack, checking its line rushes with aerial thrusts...
...just great," continued Miss Gray, "and as for Harvard men.--Hot dog! Don't they have simply wonderful football teams there! I often go to the Harvard-Yale game, and I cheer for Harvard, too. I've always wanted to run down onto the field and carry the pigskin through that line of Blue, myself. I'll bet I could shake off those tacklers...
...next score also came in the first period when T. F. Mason '30 and S. L. Batch elder '31 carried the pigskin over from the scrub 40-yard line in three plays. The feature of the march was a well executed lateral from Batchelder to Mason which netted 16 yards. Once again Putnam's try for point was successful and the score stood. University 14, scrubs...
...sweeps. From this position the former, plunged over for what looked to be a score. But a fifteen yard penalty apparently saved the Dartmouth cause, and it was only when a lateral pass from French to Guarnaccia aided by superb interference by A. W. Huguley '31 put the pigskin. CRIMSON RUSHES OFFSET DARTMOUTH AERIAL GAME H D First downs. rushing 16 5 First downs. passing 0 6 Ball lost on downs 1 1 Passes attempted 3 23 Passes completed 0 11 Own passes intercepted 1 4 Yardage gained on passes 0 189 Yardage gained by rushing 288 97 Yardage lost...