Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year a Holy Cross football team, completely beaten at the end of the first half, started to throw forward passes with bewildering accuracy past the Crimson secondaries and finally emerged from the Stadium battle on the long end of a 19 to 14 score. The possibility of a repetition of last year's disastrous second half in the Harvard-Holy Cross clash tomorrow has induced the University coaches to concentrate on the development of a forward pass defense...
This afternoon at 4 o'clock the University Seconds will meet St. John's Preparatory School on Soldiers Field in the second game of their season. Last week they triumphed over the U. S. Coast, Guard Academy by a 19 to 0 score. The Second team line-up follows: l.e., Joseph Morrill '28; l.t., G. H. Norris '29; l.g., M. T. Adams '28; c. F. H. Browne; r.g., E. A. Wood '29; r.t., A. A. Campbell '30; r.e., Joseph Hammer '28; q.b., John Noble '30; backs, D. L. Garrison '28, F. S. Grant '29, and H. I. Parker...
...innumerable fresh substitutes of the opposition, exhausted by four periods of fighting against overwhelming odds, they have crawled of their hands and knees to the scrimmage line, put up a desperate stonewall defense in the shadow of the posts and prevented the touchdown that would have made the score 0-35--or more...
...every respect Saturday was the reversal of the 1921 battle; it was this time the Harvard eleven which never got started offensively on the defense; and it was the Hoosier backs who gained almost at will, and who seemed several times on the point of rolling up a bigger score...
...local retaliation is possible. Widener Library at 10 o'clock of almost any evening except during the mid-semester hysteria is a scene of quite repose. When the lights momentarily go down as signal for closing they conceal possibly a score of souls in utter darkness. In the cubicles of the stacks there are others, but the General and Lower Reading rooms exhibit the hurly burly of a deserted village. Only the Farnsworth Room may be said to be adequately occupied...