Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard kicked off and Andrews dropped on the ball. Van Doozer fumbled it on the first down and A. Brewer dropped on it. Then Harvard started in with a rush, and, by sending Brewer and Wrightington around the ends and through centre, made a touchdown in 2 minutes and 37 seconds...
...management of the Amherst team is protesting the Dartmouth centre-rush, Caverly, on the grounds that he formerly played on a class team at Harvard under the name of Horne, and that he is a professional. The former part of the charge seems to be ill-founded...
Redpath shows steady fine playing. He catches well, uses his head and rushes well. He is never hurt and always begins to play best toward the end of the game, when his opponents are getting tired. He is still a little light for rush line halfback when the other side has the ball , but he is very apt to drop on the ball when it is dropped, and to get well into the plays...
...HAVEN, CONN., Oct. 31. - The football game between Yale and the Volunteers of New York today resulted in a victory for Yale by the large score of 42 to 0. Yale started in with a rush and made 32 points right away, but in the second half the Yale backs were instructed to "experiment," and the only scoring done was by Letton, who raised two goals from the field, duplicating the feat of Thorne, who had kicked two goals from the field in the first half...
...Whittemore were the only two who did noticeably good individual work. The former was tried at right guard on the second eleven, and toward the end of the practice took the place of Norton Shaw on the 'varsity. Here he did some fine tackling and repeatedly broke through the rush line. Whittemore, in the ten minutes he played fullback on the 'varsity, made two long runs, one almost the whole length of the field...