Word: short
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...next play Craighead punted outside at the middle of the field. Baldwin began a rushing game, and varying end runs with an occasional plunge at centre, carried the ball rapidly down the field. Hersey ran twenty yards to the 10-yard line and then Yale made a short stand for two downs, but Hersey finally scored. Stillman missed this goal and five others, all of them easy...
After the next kickoff, fumbling gave the ball to Yale, who promptly punted. The Harvard Freshmen failed to gain in two end plays and Stillman exchanged punts with Craighead, gaining fifteen yards. A succession of line plays resulted in a touchdown by Derby, Yale again making a short but ineffectual stand on the five yard line...
...practice of the Freshman team yesterday afternoon was again secret. After the preliminary work of starts, kicking and falling on the ball, the first eleven lined up against the second. Only one short half of about twenty minutes was played, the first eleven scoring three times. McGrew and Derby were back again on the field, but only the former played against the second. There were three or four changes in the line-up, but these may not be permanent. McDonald was put at left end, McGrew back at left tackle, Riggs in Jones's place at right guard and Swann...
...Freshman football practice yesterday consisted in a short half played against the second eleven. The defensive work of the first team was very good, the second eleven being unable to score, although given the ball most of the time. Drop and place kicks again played an important part in the practice, and Stillman kicked some goals from the field. Throughout the half the men were coached individually and collectively by Dibblee, Parker, Reid, Hallowell and others...
...University of Skaguay, Alaska, which opened October 1, is the first institution of its kind in the northwest. The course offered is a short one of a general literary character, although a large mining school will probably be added student to the degree of Master of Science in engineering...