Word: score
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Saturday the Princeton eleven defeated the Naval Academy at football. The score was 30 to 0. Princeton did not score until ten minutes before the close of the first half...
...impartial judge to decide which team played the better game during the first three-quarters, and the second half of the game was not foot-ball, but simply twenty-two men skating about on Jersey mud in the darkness. And yet on the other hand Yale made a larger score throughout the fall than Princeton, and has beaten her opponents each time more easily. It therefore seems somewhat unfair to make absolutely no distinction between the two, and we think the convention in its two resolutions has perhaps done the best thing it could. Yale certainly...
...yards. Piper and Dexter down Morrison. Then Woods and Crane stop him again. Morrison kicks fair and Hunnewell gets the ball. Yale's quarter back and end rush are so eager to get through on the quarter-back that they give Crehore a chance to run, and Harvard scores again. Harding kicks a goal. The ball is put in play in the centre of the field, and Higginson stops Morrison, Crehore throws Ireland and Slocum downs Morrison. Back ten yards. Higginson stops Lee and Morrison kicks. Sears returns the ball fair and Harvard gets it. Perry and Dexter gain...
...score is now 22 to 0 and it is hopelessly dark. The ball is kicked down the field and as none of the Harvard backs seemed to be awake Yale gets the ball, and Morrison kicks to Sears who is at once thrown. Piper makes a long rush of thirty-five yards, and Perry gains fifteen yards but Yale gets the ball at length about the middle of the field. Wurtemburg gets through the rush-line but is stopped by Perry who throws him with a vicious snap. Morrison kicks a beautiful low kick which Sears only gets twenty yards...
...seen by the above, in only two of the fourteen games played did the opposing team score, and only in the Princeton game was Harvard prevented from scoring. The total number of points made by Harvard was 753, opponents, 41. The score made by Harvard in the game with Exeter was the largest on record...