Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ball back to the 35-yard line. Horween punted, after Cornell was off-side and R. Harte '17 tackled Shiverick, who had recovered the punt on the two-yard line. An exchange of punts kept the ball in the Ithacans' territory, and the University started a rush down the field. Horween and E. L. Casey '19 alternated in carrying the ball to within the ten-yard line, from which point an unsuccessful forward pass went over the goal line for a touchback. A double exchange of kicks gave the Crimson the ball in the middle of the field...
Cornell, however, like Harvard, enters what now is its most important game with a mixture of old and new players. There are three new men on the rush line and two in the backfield; and, moreover, Cornell's loss has been of men who were as important factors in the team's 1915 success as were Harvard's missing 1914 veterans in the matches against Princeton and Yale last year...
...test for Harvard should be one to indicate the final possibilities of the team. Cornell has a slight advantage in rush line weight and possibly a little more because of seasoned linemen. In Shiverick the Cornellians have a kicken whose 1915 performance was phenomenal but one which he has not repeated...
...seen. It isn't likely the Crimson will produce anything elaborate on attack; it's difficult to see how she can. Cornell, judging from the Bucknell game, isn't as far along as she'd like to be, either. Trouble on the ends has stayed the forward rush of the eleven. So far as making or breaking Harvard is concerned, the game may do the same for Cornell...
...Rush, R. L., 10 Oxford street...