Word: watkinson
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale, Corwin, captain; Carter, Buchanan, Corbin, Woodruff, Gill, Wallace; quarter-back, Beecher; half-backs, Watkinson, Morrison; full-back, Gill...
...rushers which is followed by a run by Beecher which gains a good deal of ground for Yale. Dudley downs Morrison and Gill, the latter gaining ground, however. Morrison gains nothing, but Beecher breaks through and makes a touchdown behind the posts, from which Watkinson kicks a goal. The ball is placed in the middle of the field, and Holden, by two rushes, gains twenty yards. Remington gains no ground. Dudley fumbles but drops on the ball. Porter gains no ground and the ball goes to Yale on four downs. Harding stops the first rush. Adams tackles Morrison. Holden makes...
...second half by a short run, but Holden lost ground by Yale breaking through at the centre. Holden is tackled and passes to Peabody for a kick, but Yale is too quick for him and Harvard loses fifteen yards by this play. Peabody kicked up the field and Watkinson returned it with a "twister" which Peabody misjudged, thus allowing Gill to make the first touchdown of the second half. Goal. Carter hurt and Buchanan takes his place. Holden makes a short run and kicks to Watkinson. The ball is passed to Gill who gets way through to Holden. Holden, Boyden...
...when they did find what looked like a hole a Yale rusher was sure to come round from the further end and stop the runner before he got to the backs. In fact their backs did very little tackling and are evidently not so good as the rush-line. Watkinson's kicking was good and well judged, but beyond this, the backs did not do very much, and in the first half they seemed to be a little flustered, misjudging the ball badly. Still it was the rush-line that was expected to do the work...
...each other. None of the backs are remarkable for the accuracy of their drop kicks in a game; though Porter has once kicked a goal from the field. In spite of this pleasant reminiscence the fact still remains that we have no one in college who can kick as Watkinson of Yale can, or as Moffatt of Princeton, used to. Kicking goals from touchdowns is not our great point either, as yet; but that is an evil that time may remedy, and after all it is first necessary to get the touchdowns. The next game that our eleven plays...