Word: touche
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hurt and forced to retire, his place in the rush line being taken by Phinney. Neat passing by Phillips, with a strong rush by Hurd gave us our third touchdown, but no goal was kicked, as in placing the ball for the try at goal it was allowed to touch the ground, and was seized by a Tufts man before our men really were aware of what was being done. In a few minutes after this mis-play, Willard secured the ball on the 30-yard line and tried for a goal from the field, missing by only...
...OTTAWA GAME.Harvard won the toss and took advantage of a slight wind blowing directly toward the field. During the first three-quarters our rush line played a very steady game, tackling well and seldom losing the ball. Kimball by a pretty run secured a touch down. Shortly after Gilman got another. Goals were kicked from both. Homans at this point of the game was injured, while making a play which forced Ottawa to touch down for safety, and Thayer took his place...
...second three-quarters Kimball made another touch down, and kicked a goal from a drop kick after the ball was punted out; but the referee said "no goal" much to every one's surprise. Bemis next made a touch down, but failed to kick a goal. After some very pretty rushing and passing by the forwards, Finney dragged Riley over the line and forced him to make a safety touch down. Soon after this the Ottawa rush line knocked Kimball down while trying for a "fair catch," and by dribbling the ball down the field secured a touch down...
...last Yale-Wesleyan game Terry, the Yale half-back, made a run starting behind his own goal posts and ending with a touch-down, the longest run on record...
...freshmen, as falls to the lot of the man who makes his entry into the college life of Harvard for the first time. In the following article from the Oxford and Cambridge undergraduate's Journal will be found many incidents which find their counterpart at our own university. "One touch of nature makes the world kin," and our students will fully appreciate the pathos of the account of the English undergraduate's struggle with the haughty goody, anglice, "bed-make...