Word: shutting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...game devoid of the spectacular, and characterized by hard, fast football, Brown went down to a 6 to 0 shut-out at the hands of Syracuse. The margin of superiority was a very small one, and in a large part of the contest Brown seemed to have the upper hand. Wilkinson, the brilliant halfback of the Orange eleven, was in a great measure responsible for his team's victory, for in the long series of rushes which resulted in the long score, he carried the ball on almost every play. In spite of their defeat, the Brown players showed great...
...against the seconds, while the backs and ends of Team A and B opposed each other in a light scrimmage. After a half-hour of this, the University lined up against the second team and went through 45 minutes of hard play which resulted in a 12 to 0 shut-out for the black eleven. Captain Mahan featured the scrimmage by lifting a perfect drop-kick from the 50-yard line, and on another occasion, when the seconds had lost the ball on the University's 8-yard line after a sensational march down the field, he put his team...
...games resulted in nine straight victories, and when Brown broke the charm in the 7 to 3 contest on Soldiers Field, the University made a trip to Providence and evened matters up by taking an 11 to 10 slug-fest. Since then the University has eliminated Princeton and has shut out both Williams and Pennsylvania, in addition, taking extra matches from the Calumet Club and the Pilgrims...
...Vermont, and Virginia, has taken two games from Holy Cross and the University of Pennsylvania, and has broken even with Brown. On the other hand, Yale took two games from Princeton while the University took three, and Yale was defeated by Williams; a nine which met a no-hit shut-out on its visit to Soldiers Field. Harvard's percentage of games won and lost is .777; Yale...
...University team showed great strength in its first matches with other colleges, scoring shut-outs of 6 to 0 against Amherst on May 1 and 9 to 0 against Dartmouth a week later. The latter game marked the eighth straight victory of the team...