Word: touchdowns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...several downs Sears got the ball and kicked it over the line. Peabody returned the ball when it was kicked out from the twenty-five yard line, and Remington downed it. A long pass to Porter gave him a chance, and he ran round the crowd and made a touchdown. No goal was kicked, and after a few minutes play a good kick by Peabody dropped the ball right in front of the Stevens goal post. The ball was muffed, and Butler scored another touchdown. Brooks kicked a goal, making the score ten to nothing. There was no more scoring...
...soon as play was called in the second half, rushes by Harding and Porter carried the ball down to the Stevens' line, and Fletcher made a touchdown. The try for goal failed, the ball going sideways across the field, and Fletcher made another touchdown from which no goal was kicked. Porter got the ball from the kick-out and ran it back almost to the line, when Fletcher carried it across again. No goal, the ball being kicked fair where Stevens got it. When they next lined up, Smith got through and stopped a kick, and Remington dropping...
...Harvard scored another touchdown and Brooks kicked this goal. The ball then came to the middle of the field and was rushed by Tufts down to their opponents goal. Peabody, however, soon started it back, and it was soon inside Tufts' 25-yard line again. Then came a fight of ten minutes, in which our men did the poorest playing of the game. Ames, the left half-back of the Tufts team runs low, and it is astonishing how the high tackling of our men showed itself when they attempted to stop him. During this ten minutes Ames went under...
...second half of the game was opened by an extraordinary run by Boyden, L. S., from the kick off directly down to the goal line, and in a few seconds after he scored a touchdown. Through the whole game Boyden's playing was of this sort, and was certainly as good, if not better, than any playing on the field this year...
...rest of the game Porter played in Boyden's place, and Boyden took Fletcher's. The ball was kept in Tuft's 25-yard line nearly all the time, and Harvard's play was characterized by its dropping the ball several times. Porter scored a touchdown from which Brooks got a goal; and with a safety by the Tufts the score reached 46 points. At 5.20 the referee called game on account of the growing darkness...