Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...yesterday the second team scored on a composite University Team B by a drop-kick from the 37-yard line. Roscoe Fitts Unc., who has transferred from Tufts this fall, and is consequentnly ineligible for the University team, was the star of the afternoon. It was due to his brilliant run of nearly 30 yards through the University line that he was able to kick the ball over the cross...
...performance of the ends on both sides was brilliant. For Brown, Al-bright played a dashing game at right end, while his mate, William, made the best run of any Bruin, 25 yards, besides making several other considerable gains and preventing a possible University score in the fourth period by a beautiful tackle for loss...
...university ends, J. F. Ryan Occ. and P. D. Steele '21,accounted for many brilliant plays. Ryan caught the three successful forward passes out of eight attempts by the University, stopped several dangerous Brown advances and figured in almost every play. Steele showed himself a worthy substitute for J. K. Desmond at right end by his tackling and interference...
Brown received Harvard's kick-off on her 25-yard line. From here Fox drove his team down the field by a series of brilliant criss-cross plays, Fox, Shupert and Armstrong carrying the ball. At the University 25-yard line Brown was set back by an offside penalty. A Brooks to Albright pass netted eight yards. Two more frantic rushes were stopped for no gain. Fox unsuccessfully drop-kicked from the 30-yard line. Humphrey out-punted Armstrong, thus advancing the ball to the Brown 25 yard line by the end of the quarter...
...Yale coaches have at last found the right backfield combination to give the necessary speed. Thorne Murphy and Herbert Kempton, who have been piloting the second and third University teams, are the tow to fill the positions. Kempton was considered the most brilliant, interscholastic player when he was captain at Exeter. Both Murphy and Kempton have shown phenomenal form in running, punting and drop-kicking this year...