Word: scrub
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain A. E. French '29 scored the first touchdown before two minutes were up. Taking the ball on his own 35-yard line on the first play, the Crimson leader pierced the center of the line and cutting sharply back raced through the scrub secondary for a touchdown. E. T. Putnam '30 booted the extra point into the score...
...yard line. French attempted a tackle play but was thrown with no gain. On the next play Guarnaccia went through left tackle for twenty yards. A pass, French to E. T. Putnam '30, failed, but French raced around the left wing on the next try and, evading the scrub half backs, covered the intervening distance to the goal line. Putnam kicked the extra point...
After the ball had changed hands several times, the scrubs punted. Guarnaccia made a leaping catch on his own 39-yard line and dodged and side-stepped his way through the entire scrub team for the second score. The kick for extra point was not tried...
Gilligan made the score 16 to 0 when he dropped back from the scrub 20-yard line and booted a clean field goal...
...yard line. A pass from Gilligan to O'Connell was grounded, but on the next play Gilligan circled the left end and was not brought down until he had reached the 10-yard line. G. C. Holbrook '30 pierced left tackle for five more yards. Here the scrub defense stiffened and it took three line bucks by Putnam and Holbrook to cover the remaining five yards, Holbrook carrying the pigskin over. Gilligan's try for the extra point by drop kick fell short by inches...