Word: working
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...largest crowd of the season gathered on Jarvis field, Saturday afternoon to see Harvard defeat Wesleyan. The team played with more life than usual, especially in the second half, and succeeded in scoring sixty-four points against the visiting eleven. The rush line work of the eleven. The rush line work of the eleven was good, and the tackling and blocking were the most effective seen this year...
...same offence. At this point Harding was injured, and Dennison took his place. The ball exchanged hands several times owing to the tendency of the Harvard rushers to hold their opponents, but finally Harvard secured the ball near the centre of the field and Blanchard, Lee, and Dennison worked it down to Wesleyan's twenty-yard line by clever rushes. Here Goldthwaite broke through the line with the ball, and carried it to the five-yard line, and on the next rush Lee deposited it behind the goal line, fourteen minutes after play had begun. The try for a goal...
...line, and scored again at 4.03. Goal. Score 54-0. Wesleyan put the ball in play at the centre of the field, but could not gain by rushing and was forced to kick. Harvard forced the ball towards Wesleyan's goal by short rushes, Blanchard and Hallowell doing good work. At 4.09 Lee scored another touchdown by running around the end. Goal. Score 60-0. Five minutes later after a good rush by Dean, Lee secured the last touchdown, but Saxe failed to kick the goal, making the score 64-0 The teams were made up as follows...
...improvement in the work of the eleven as shown by the Wesleyan game is very gratifying. It was the last and by far the best of the practice games and promises well for the success of the team in the championship games. The chief criticism to be made of the playing Saturday has been called forth by every recent game, namely, that it takes much too long for the men to settle down to steady work. During the first twenty minutes there were many fumbles and poor passes, the team work was ragged and ineffective, and there was consequently little...
Saturday afternoon at Exeter the freshman eleven won a game which was loosely played on both sides. Exeter's game was especially unsteady, while the work of the freshmen at times was execrable. Their tackling could hardly have been poorer, while there was hardly any attempt at blocking off. The rushers were slow in dropping on the ball, but they got through well, and showed considerable snap. The half-backs played a fair rushing game, but their tackling also was high and anything but effective. Johnson as full-back played a fine rushing and kicking game, and he and Kendricken...