Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...round were played this afternoon, and were very close and exciting. H. C. Egan beat W. E. Egan, 2 up. The match was extremely close up to the 16th hole, where H. C. Egan tied the score and then won the last two. The Hollins-McFarland match was very spectacular, and was the first match in the individual play to come out all square. Hollins won the first two holes in threes and kept this lead until McFarland captured the fifth and tenth holes, making the score even. After driving out of bounds on the eleventh, Hollins holed...
...making first down many times in succession. Twice, during the second half, they carried the ball to and inside of Harvard's 25 yard line only to lose it, once on a blocked try for a field-goal and again by being compelled to punt. There were few spectacular plays to vary the monotony of steady line plunging. The only ones were a run of 40 yards by Mills to within five yards of a touchdown, a run of about 30 yards by Shannon, of West Point, on a punt, and the two kicks blocked at critical moments by Meier...