Word: touche
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...played with but one stick about four feet long. The sticks used today are usually four feet and a half long and nine inches broad near the end. The general features of the game are the same today as they were centuries ago. The players were not allowed to touch the ball with their hands; the body-checking was about the same, a little more vigorous perhaps; when a goal was made the ball was sent back to be thrown up in the centre of the field. On the other hand, the number of players was much larger then than...
...Harvard alike, the referee decided it was no goal. Henry then made a touchdown, but no goal was scored. Mason scored the first goal from the field immediately after. Wesselhoeft and Morrison then scored touchdowns, and Mason kicked a second goal from the field, completing the score, Columbia touching back three times. Keith ran very well, crossing the goal line several times, but always deprived of the ball by making a touch-in-goal. Columbia seemed to lose all hope of scoring anything, and devoted all hope of scoring anything, and devoted all her efforts to keeping the score down...
Rutgers defeated the University of Pennsylvania in foot-ball Saturday, 3 touch-downs...
Yale defeated the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at New Haven, Ct., Saturday, the score being six goals and two touch-downs, to no goals and three safeties...
...foot-ball team has experienced a great loss in the disabling of Mr. Camp. He will not probably be able to play any more games this season, at least not the Harvard game. The eleven defeated the Boston School of Technology Saturday, six goals and two touch-downs to nothing...