Word: stagg
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of Harvard and Yale foot-ball representatives was held at New Haven, Sunday evening. Messrs. Corbin, Gill, Stagg, Wallace, King, of the eleven, and Dr. Delevan represented Yale; for Harvard, Palmer and Sears were present. Harvard offered to leave the question to arbitration and abide by the decision of any judge chosen by both parties. To this Yale would not agree and in reply sent the following letter to Mr. Sears...
Yale.- Wallace, Gill, Woodruff, Corbin, (centre), Heffifinger, Rhodes, Stagg; Wurtemburg, (Hervey), quarter-back; McClung and Graves, half-backs; Bull, full-back...
...Ames returned. After kicking by both backs the ball went finally to Yale on Princeton's twenty-yard line. Bull tried for a goal from the field but missed. Princeton brought the ball out to the twenty-five yard line, where it was dribbled to Black. He ran around Stagg's end and carried the ball fifty yards before he was stopped by Bull. Channing advanced the ball still further into Yale's territory, and a strong rush by Cowan brought it within a yard of Yale's line. Princeton failed to score, however, and the ball went to Yale...
...line. Bull returned the kick and the ball went in the crowd on the side of the field. Yale again got the ball and a rush by Graves and a punt by Bull sent the ball close to Princeton's line, where Ames, attempting to rush, was downed by Stagg. Ames, however, sent it well into the centre of the field by a long punt. Yale, by short rushes, forced the ball to Princeton's twenty-five-yard line. Here Cowan was disqualified for foul tackling and Riggs took his place. Princeton regained some lost ground, but the ball, going...
Yale-rushers, Stagg, Hartwell, Woodruff, Corbin, Heffelfinger, Gill, Wallace; quarter-back Wurtemburg; half-backs McBride and McClung; full-back Bull...