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...goal posts back to the goal line were not acted upon, and Glenn Warner's suggestion that points be scored for first downs was met with laughter, rules regarding the "dead fumble" and the try for point after a touchdown from the two-yard line instead of from the three-yard line, were among those adopted...
...field play of F.J. Gilligan '32, brought the wall to the Blue one-foot line at the opening of the second period. A stubborn Eli defense resisted and took the ball on cowns. A second time a vicious assault in which Gilligan figured prominently carried the ball to the three-yard line, where the Yale forward wall again held firm...
...third quarter was marked by the resort on both sides to an aerial game, which proved threatening but ineffective, and it was not until the middle of the final period that Gilligan slid through the Yale line to place the Crimson once more in scoring position on the three-yard line. Four downs were required to push the score across. Bernard White '32 kicked the goal...
...workman-like fashion on most plays and were mopped up on a very small minority of plays. An epitome of the new spirit in the line was presented in the second period. Drais, Holy Cross end, took a long pass from Ryan and was thrown on the three-yard chalk-mark. For three downs the wall of Crimson jerseys held like a concrete abutment, and Clancy had to divenover the scrimmage line to tally the Purple's only points on the fourth play...
...yard pass from Ryan to Shanahan accounted for the next Purple score and then Saltonstall blocked the try for point. Early in the third quarter Kittredge dropped a 40-yard punt from the toe of French and Clark, the rangy lineman, fell on the wandering pigskin within the enemy 20-yard line. Successive rushes took the ball to the three-yard line where Sayles fumbled and Daly recovered. A beautiful pass from behind the goal line put the ball in Healv's arms on the 18-yard marker. Another pass from Wise and Healy went to mid-field. Nothing could...