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...laboring under a great disadvantage during this three-quarters owing to an unfortunate kick-off, for at the outset, the ball had passed into Richards hands and he transferred the fighting to our very goal line. Farwell made several very brilliant runs, carrying the ball once to our five yard line, but Harvard each time gained possession of the spbere and Henry's remarkable kiching and rushing kept our goal safe from immediate danger. The maul in goal from which we made our safety, was intensely exciting. It was occasioned by an intercepted kich of Cowling's who finally...
...rushers passed and tackled well, and the half-backs seemed to have got over all nervousness, meeting Yale with run for run and kich for kich, gaining at every turn. Suddenly, however, Yale changed her tacties and Terry was off with the ball, rushing almost to our ten yard line. In the confusion that followed, Hyndman secured the ball and slid over the linc, making a touchdown for Yale, from which Terry kicked the second goal. This made Harvard more careful, and she played a steadier game, From the kick-off the ball was passed to Cowling, who kicked...
...better than usual, but there was much inexcusable fumbling at critical moments, which must be gotten over before our team can play a strong game. The Michigan men hardly passed the centre of the field a single time, and most of the game was played inside their twenty-five yard line. Cowling did some very fine kicking, especially in the first half. The teams were as follows...
...feature of the Princeton game was the kicking. moffat and cowling both tried for goals five time; Moffat succeeded four times and Cowling failed four times, but Cowling's tries were against the wind, and one of them was a beauty from the fifty-five-yard line, and it almost grazed the post. The Princeton rushers played well forward, relying on the unsteadiness of Harvard's back and on the strength of their own. Moffat would kick high, the Harvard tends would fumble, and the Princeton rushers would get the ball and so gain ground ; and when they got within...
...however determined that it should burn, dragged the engine to a pond near by and threw the dirty water upon the citizens in such quantities that they were glad to escape. Another amusement, in which they frequently indulged, was the practice of throwing water into any window on the yard which happened to be open. This harmless recreation proved ruinous to the society, for we learn that "about the year 1822, having discharged water into the room of the college regent, thereby damaging a very valuable library of books, the company was disbanded and shortly after the engine was sold...