Word: plays
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshmen will play the Roxbury Latin School team at Franklin Park this afternoon. The following men will constitute the team: Rushers, Curtis, Draper, Heard, Hunt, (centre), Travis, Newell, Wrenn; quarter-back, Neff; half-backs, Schoen and Brooks; full-back, Forbes...
JACOB WENDELL, JR., Sec. H. A. A.THE following men will be at Leavitt and Peirce's at 1.45 sharp, dressed, ready to play the Roxbury team: Wrenn, Newell, Travis, Hunt, Heard, Draper, Curtis, Neff, Schoen, Forbes, Allen, Henry, Baker, Ingalls and Putnam...
...Harvard started off the second half in possession of the ball and soon forced it up to Cambridge's fifteen-yard line. Carpenter, by a good rush, carried it round the end and made a touchdown, from which he kicked a goal. The High School team now began to play harder, and good rushes took the ball to Harvard's twenty-yard line. Corbitt made a fine rush through the whole freshman team and got a touchdown. Goal. Score 6-6. During the rest of the half, Harvard failed to score, although she had possession of the ball most...
...from whom to choose the half dozen necessary for the university. More than this, it means a team picked from the remaining 40 to give the university practice. This has been for years a strongly-marked feature in the Yale game. Her team always show by their play in a match that they have been pitted against strong and good men in practice, whereas the other teams give evidence of having enjoyed too easy victories over the 'scrub' side...
...Harvard will play the close, driving game, pushing and plunging ahead with no let up so long as they can make their five yards. Yale will play for more carefully planned opportunities, varying her game with an occasional kick and manipulating her men with greater rapidity and more precision. Princeton will play the most dashing forward game of them all. Her rushers will get through more quickly and sharply and will be down the field faster on a kick. She will take far greater chances than any of the rest, and while not playing much faster than Yale, will...