Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second step, a challenge to Yale, followed in 1875, and Yale accepted. The game was played at New Haven with Harvard the victor. The result of this game was the assembling of a second convention, attended by Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, in 1876, which formed the Intercollegiate Football Association, and adopted with a few modifications the Rugby Union rules. They also arranged a mutual schedule of games...
...Second half-hour--Yale kicks off. Harvard runs back, but Yale now shows greater familiarity with the game and tackles strongly. The runner is stopped and the whole Yale team piles on him. When they are taken off the ball is found a flattened sheet of rubber at the bottom. It is blown up again and the game proceeds. Blanchard gets the ball and runs in for a touchdown. The goal is missed...
...game with Exeter on the following Saturday, the Freshmen won through the failure of Exeter to kick two goals from touchdowns. In the first half the Crimson team completely outclassed the visitors, who lost the ball on downs time and again. The second half proved the exact opposite of the first, and, aided by a strong aerial and open field attack, Exeter twice scored but their inability to kick the goals lost them an opportunity to tie the game...
...yard run by Churchill on the second play of the game prepared the way for Buell's field goal from the 36-yard line. Throughout the game Churchill proved a consistent ground gainer and in the end of the third period he got away for a 50-yard run. Buell, from start to finish, showed his ability to pick out the plays that were going to gain, and to diagnose the enemy tactics...
...marked (A) stand at foot of stairs under Stadium; men marked (B) stand at first entrance to Stadium; men marked (C) stand at entrance to wooden stands on track; men marked (D) stand at second entrance to Stadium; men marked (E) stand at colonnade entrance...