Word: toward
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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With twenty-five minutes remaining to play, Harvard secured the ball on Smith's punt, which followed soon after the kick-off, on Pennsylvania's 38-yard line and started another onslaught toward the goal line. The ball was soon carried to the 6-yard line whence Goodhue, who had taken Nichols's place, scored. Marshall again kicked goal...
...University eleven yesterday hardly kept up its good work of the day before, for two of the three touchdowns scored on the second were due to flukes rather than to actual gains by straight football. An excellent start was made, but toward the end of the practice the pace seemed to slacken somewhat, and the first eleven was several times forced to punt. In the last few minutes of play the eleven pulled itself together again and held the second for downs when the ball was within five yards of the University's goal line...
Practice will be light, consisting mainly in catching and passing, and general stick work. Toward the end of the period there will be short line-ups; and the practice will probably close for the fall with a game against a team composed of graduate players...
...Advocate, with its contents of very varied degrees of merit, can hardly be called disappointing, for one does not expect consistent excellence in its contributions; yet one cannot help wishing that the prose in an opening number might have been such as to prepossess the reader more favorably toward the coming volume that a glance at the stories offered is likely to do. The editorials are a straight-forward setting forth of thoughts pertinent to the opening year--the reunion for the upper classmen, the new friendships and opportunities for the Freshmen--and are worth attention. But the rest...
...game should be greatly improved if this rule develops the anticipated result, that when strong defenses are encountered by the four-man attack, a kicking game, with the usual opportunities for spectacular runs in a broken field, will be resorted to. Another provision of the rules which tends toward the improvement of the sport is that permitting the first person to whom the center passes the ball to run with it, thus giving more encouragement to trick plays than has been the case for many years...