Word: tore
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain W. J. Murray Occ. started the drive by a run-back of the kick-occ of nine yards to the 25-yards line. Then Murray and R. Horween Occ., E. L. Casey Occ., and R. S. Humphery '21 tore through the line, off tackle and around end, for steady gains. Casey slid through right guard 18 yards to the 'visitors' 32-yard mark. Horween followed by a plunge for two. Casey reeled off two more gains of the nine and 15 yards around end, enabling Horween to hurl himself over the line...
Coach Fisher took out the first team at this point, sending Team B into the scrimmage. A few plays later F. C. Church '20 tore through the field 70 yards for the second score...
Bates then ran up Horween's kick-off from its 10 yard to its 23 yard line. A rush and pass failed and the Maine kicker, Molten, punted out of danger to the Harvard 40 yard mark. Murray tore ahead 15 yards for first down. On the next play Casey sprinted around left end and broke through the field for a touchdown. The goal was kicked by Horween. The first quarter ended after a series of fumbles and incompleted forward passes by both sides, leaving the ball in the opponent's possession on the University's 30 yard mark...
...unable to score in this quarter, despite repeated line plunges by A. D. Hamilton '21, who substituted for Nelson at right half-back. More than half the period had elapsed before the Harvard eleven got under way. Moulton, the Maine kicker, punted to R. S. Humphrey '21 who tore from his own 45 yard line to the enemy 35 yard line. Nine rushes by Hamilton and F. C. Church '20, alternately, put the ball on the Bates 4 yard mark just as the first session closed...
...yards but Goodwin spurted on the final stretch and the runners finished even. On the exchange of batons, the Crimson had the advantage, D. F. O'Connell '21 taking the first corner ahead of Paine. Paine went ahead before the lap was ended, but O'Connell soon tore by him and was twenty yards to the good at the start of the final relay. D. J. Duggan '20 ran a steady, well-planned race which just managed to stave off Rose's sprint on the third lap. He broke the tape 15 yards ahead of the B. A. A. runner...