Word: stagg
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Jarvis Field Saturday afternoon Harvard defeated Stagg's Eleven of Christian Workers from Springfield by a score of 44 to 4. In the game on the Saturday before Harvard had scored 34 points against the same eleven and there was considerable interest in noting what improvement the 'varsity has made during the week. Consequently the attendance was large. The management, however, did not put any policemen on the north side of the field, and the result was that the crowd rushed out upon the field. A couple of policemen would have remedied matters greatly...
Harvard's play was anything but first-class. The backs as usual made good individual gains; but they were helped little by the forwards whose interference, especially in the first half, amounted to nothing at all. The whole rush-line lacked snap and precision. It could not prevent Stagg's team from making gains by the same wedge which they used successfully in breaking Harvard's line in the first game. No part of the Harvard rush-line proved able to stop the play; for it went through by the tackles just about as frequently as between the guards...
...Stagg's eleven played an excellent game with the exception of occasional fumbles by the backs. They showed excellent team work, and the individual play was also first-class. The rush-line broke through and tackled well when Harvard had the ball; and of the backs Stagg and Seerley made several remarkable rushes. Van Leuven, as usual, played a very strong game on the right...
...Stagg's team made its touch down in the second half. After Harvard had scored several times, the Springfield men rushed the ball down the field to Harvard's ten yard line. For two downs they were unable to gain. On the third they made a pretense of using the wedge; but instead scattered Harvard's forces by a pretty trick and scored...
Harvard had the ball at the start. Lake lost it almost immediately, and Harvard was forced back to her 30 yard line. Here she got the ball, and without losing it, took the play to Stagg's line where Trafford scored. Goal...