Word: placement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...among them was Poe, the famous end of the Class of 1900. Pendleton, H. Baker, De Witt, and Waller all played in the backfield during the afternoon; S. Baker was again at quarter, and Dunlap and Wight at the ends Pendleton and Baker tried a number of kicks from placement with fair success. President Hibben, who will be unable to attend the game Saturday, was on the field watching the practice...
...third quarter three points were made by each team. Ashbaugh stood on his 42-yard line and scored a beautiful goal from placement. It was on the kick-off after this play that Hitchcock was put out of the game for unavoidable use of hands. T. H. Frothingham took his place, and a few plays later saved what might have been another place goal by blocking the kick. Toward the end of the period, Brickley got away around left end for a 45-yard run. Three plays failed to gain first down, and so Brickley was called back for another...
...preventing a score until the next period. Princeton then rallied and with a combination of splendid and runs and deplanes through the heavy Dartmouth line scored a touchdown, but failed to even up the score by missing the attempt at a goal. Baker, however, made a beautiful kick from placement a moment later...
...haven team was within its 15-yard line. At other times, the end runs and line rushes of Flynn and Pimply were almost certain for long gains. Yale's score was the result of two touchdowns, while W. and J. secured three points from a long kick from placement. Wheeler at quarterback showed marked ability and appear a very likely choice for the position in the later games, as neither Cornell nor Cornish has handled the team to the satisfaction of the coaches. The problem of quarterbacks, however, is still unsettled in New Haven...
...entirely to her weakness in the kicking department of the game. Three times by successful series of forward passes, closely resembling those executed by Williams in the Harvard game, she brought the ball within scoring distance of the Yale goal, but each attempt at a kick from placement went wild...