Word: plays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following letter was sent to Captain Sears in answer to his telegram asking if Yale would play an exhibition game in New Haven...
...Play was called at 2 45, Yale with the ball, Harvard in the west end of the field favored by a light wind. Yale used the V trick but gained only four yards, kicked. Harvard getting the ball forced it up the field by rushes of Newell, Wadsworth and Lee to Yale's five-yard line when it went to Yale on a foul. Yale made a short punt and Wadsworth by a sharp run caught the ball on the twenty-yard line, when it again went to Yale on four downs. Sharp work by Cranston and Curtis forced Yale...
...Varsity game, there is little use in "crying over spilled milk," especially as the fault of the spilling is not ours; so that it only remains for us now to nerve ourselves more surely for the present contest and to win, if winning is possible. The freshmen must play this afternoon with this in view. The game will be a game only by courtesy, in reality it will prove work. The freshman teams of previous years have set '92 an example which it is their duty to follow. In doing this, confidence will be helpful but overconfidence disastrous. Careful, hard...
...yard line. Another rush by Colladay gained 10 yards. The ball went to Wesleyan on four downs. Slayback fumbled and Cash and Zeigler carried the ball in goal, making the first touchdown for Pennsylvania. Hill kicked the goal. Score, Pennsylvania, 6; Wesleyan, 0. The ball was again put into play and kept at Wesleyan's forty-yard line. Manchester was hurt in tackling Hulme, but kept at his work. They play now became very rough; Wagenhurst and Crane were hurt, and Manchester retired, Clark taking his place. At the end of the first half the score stood as above. When...
...they would have won from Harvard as readily, or more so. What Yale tries to make out by no means follows. It will go on record that the Yale team was enabled to win the championship of 1888 by forfeit, the Harvard faculty refusing to allow the eleven to play at New York, and the Yale management refusing to allow its players to go elsewhere. It has always been supposed that a standard of sportsmanship exists among the college men, different from that which prevails among the professionals, but such a feeling has not been observable in this foot-ball...