Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work of the ends poor, there was noticeable improvement in the line. The scrubs could make no steady gains, their plunges being repeatedly thrown back. They scored once, however, when a thirty-yard end run by Hammond brought the ball to the one-yard line, and a rush by Thompson, the former all-Western star, carried it across...
Brown started the last period with a rush. Crowther swept around his right end and down the side-line for a 45-yard run to a touchdown. On this run he shook off several men who should have thrown him. Ashbaugh kicked the goal. It was now the University's turn to startle the spectators. A beautiful forward pass from Bradley to Graustein netted 50 yards and a touchdown from which T. H. Frothingham kicked the goal. This ended the scoring: Harvard 30, Brown...
...second team took the ball on their opponents' 25-yard line and started to rush toward the goal line. But on a quarterback run Freedley was tackled for a loss of 15 yards by Smith, who had replaced Felton at left end. This forced the second team to punt, H. Hardwick receiving the ball for the University on his 15-yard line and running it back 30 yards. On the next play the seconds seemed to have weakened, for Brickley smashed through tackle for a 55-yard run to a touchdown. Freedley might have tackled him again, had there...
Team A started with the ball in mid-field and after a series of line plays carried it across the goal line of the second team. Brickley made the touchdown. In the rush down the field, Hardwick made a 25-yard run. The second team, though given the ball on team A's 25-yard line, could gain only a few yards by rushing and failed when a drop-kick was attempted...
...with the great increase in the number of courses and students, this custom was abandoned to save time. It is proposed to restore this day for preparation, though many professors argue that the student should be well enough prepared to pass creditably without special review. However, in the rush of college life as it is, such a day for preparation would be a great boon and is much to be desired...