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...opening play was one of the prettiest of the game. Brewer received the kick at the 25 yard line and splashed down the field for 85 yards and a touch-down, aided by magnificent blocking of half the team. A. Brewer kicked the goal and the score stood 6 to 0 at the close of one minute's play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football. | 10/15/1894 | See Source »

...circling the right end for a good 20 yards. Steady, sure gains through centre and tackles carried the ball down the field to the five yard line, when Hayes ploughed through the right centre to the line. He dropped the ball, but Dunlop carried it over for a touch-down. Brewer failed the goal, and the half closed a few minutes later with the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football. | 10/12/1894 | See Source »

...yard lines were passed. 7 minutes more remained to play. Could we make a touch-down? Off-side play gave Harvard 5 yards more and the Crimson was rampant. Right straight through the centre they went again. Now the ball was on the 25 yard line and for the first time a rush was unsuccessful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE WINS | 11/25/1893 | See Source »

Armstrong broke from the line and carried the ball to the 15 yard line. Two rushes were made with little success. Thorne then carried the ball to the 10 yard line. It looked like a touch-down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE WINS | 11/25/1893 | See Source »

...Graduate Advisory Committee, of the Intercollegiate Football Association at a recent meeting held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, decided to advocate the changing of the playing rules in football as follows: "The ball shall be brought out after a touch-down from the place where the player holding the ball is held and not where he crossed the line. The players on the side not having the ball shall not be allowed to touch the ball till it has been put into play." The colleges were represented as follows: Yale, Walter Camp; Wesleyan. F. D. Beattys; Princeton, Alexander Moffatt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intercollegiate Football Rules. | 3/9/1893 | See Source »

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