Word: trick
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...long defensive scrimmage yesterday afternoon against the second during the secret practice. The second was given a number of opportunities to score, having the ball on the 20-yard line with an unlimited number of downs. The University eleven was very strong on the defence, however, for open and trick plays were stopped for no gain in almost every case...
...next week Amherst was defeated 10 to 0, but last Saturday Pennsylvania won from Brown 13 to 5. Last year Harvard barely defeated Brown 6 to 2 in a very close and hard-fought game. The Brown team is heavy, very fast and has a number of exceptionally good trick plays. The whole team with the exception of McKay and Altdoerffer, who may not play, is in good condition...
...field at the start of the scrimmage, but was soon forced to punt, Sprague doing the kicking. As was the case throughout the afternoon, the first team line men broke through and almost blocked the punt. The second team was again given the ball and, by a number of trick plays, gained nearly thirty yards before losing it. The first team then went straight down the field for its first touchdown, Minot scoring. After a short intermission play was resumed, and was considerably faster. O'Hare and Whitney did excellent work for the second team, stopping a number of plays...
McKay kicked off to Stevens who passed the ball to Peterson, the crisscross gaining twenty-seven yards, as G. G. Browne had been drawn in by the trick. After one rush Stevens made an onside kick which Leslie fumbled and Williams recovered the ball in the centre of the field. Here Harvard held well, securing the ball on downs. Two line plunges gained but two yards and Frothingham punted outside on Williams's 45-yard line. Williams was penalized for starting before the ball and Stevens punted over O'Flaherty's head, the ball rolling toward the Harvard goal. Three...
With regard to the disappointments of the game--the base-running and the errors--it need only be said that the men were caught off bases by a trick which many umpires would have called a balk, and which came as near as possible to being a balk in the estimation of the umpire who allowed it. The errors were due to the necessity of handling slow balls with almost impossible quickness, and are not to be classed with the errors of omission which go to make stupid playing...