Word: yards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...field back of Divinity. Cambridge was made up of light men, but they played a remarkably plucky game. They out-played Harvard in team work but were not a match in weight. Cambridge passed well and their backs were trained. At the start Raymond's kick lost Ninety twenty yards. Rushes by McLeod and Aiken, however, regained what was lost and and brought the ball to the thirty yard line. During the scrimmages Cambridge tackled well. Crane got another fifteen yards, aided by his team's blockingoff; another down and Wells was pushed over. Crane kicked the goal. Score...
...second half, Brooks took Aiken's place. Both full backs did good kicking. Corbett's rush again took the ball to '90's ten yard line but Crane kept Cambridge from scoring by his long kick. Both sides played sharply, neither side gaining much until McLeod got by the rush line and backs and scored a touch-down. Goal. 18-0. Work was commenced in a spirited manner and Cambridge showed skilful passing. Both full-backs did excellent punting; one remarkably good punt of Corbett's prevented Ninety from scoring again. The best work for Cambridge was done by Corbett...
Game was called at precisely 3.10 Stevens taking the ball and the west end of the field. Hall started with a rush of ten yards followed py short rushes by both P. McKenzie and Raphael. The ball was then passed to Strong, who started to rush but was finely tackled by Upton. First down. McKenzie then rushed but was quickly downed without gaining five yards. Raphael then tried to rusll but Cranston broke through the rush line and downed him. This made the third down. Strong then kicked but the ball was stopped, Stevens getting it. Then both backs made...
...prolonged. The first man in each event will receive three points, the second two. 4, The longest pass of the ball in three attempts; first, eight, second, five. 5, Goal from drop kick. Each contestant will have three trials. In this event the kicking will begin at the twenty-yard line, and at each succeeding five-yard line until the fifty-yard line is reached. 6. Handicap run the length of the field, the heaviest man to receive the greatest handicap, while the backs and end rushers give three and two yards respectively...
...evening: second tenor, Tremain, Sever, Martin. Higgins, Hyde, Folsom; first basses, Hawes, Farwell, Ware, Codman, Berry, Batchelder, Gode, Churchhill, George, Whitney, Van Tyne, Strong, Purrington, Sears; second bases, Kinney. Griffin, Batchelder. There was one candidate for yodler. After the trial the old members of the club sang in the yard...