Word: placements
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hearst's best seller is the Lampoon's autumnal objective for 1919. And what the Lampoon's travesteurs do to Cosmopolitan's headliners is worthy of placement on Mr. Hearst's best comic pages...
...Haven Saturday the Princeton freshmen upset all calculations by defeating the Yale yearlings 9 to 7 in a game won by a 43-yard goal from placement in the final moments of play. The Yale team was a heavy favorite as it had defeated the University eleven, which had won from the Orange and Black team 24 to 0 two weeks ago. The first score came in the second period when Harvey, a Princeton end, ran 50 yards for a touchdown. In the second half Yale gained a one-point lead on a touchdown by Lay and a goal...
...first chance to score. Harrison of the soldiers, kicking, from near his own goal line, was so hurried by the informals' line breaking through that the ball only reached the 30-yard line, where J. G. Coolidge '20, made a fair catch. Instead of trying for a goal from placement the ball was placed in scrimmage. At the failure of the attack A. Horween tried at drop kick from the 35-yard mark, but the kick was short...
...yard line, put a drop-kick squarely between the uprights. This was the only field goal the University attempted, but Neville, Comerford and Legore each tried one unsuccessfully for Yale. All three were from beyond the 40-yard line and the only one that approached success was Comerford's placement kick from the 42-yard line, which hit the upright almost on a level with the cross...
...which Driggs intercepted and carried 65 yards for a touchdown, spelled victory for the Nassau team, although in the beginning of the game Dartmouth led by one field goal. The first score of the season against Princeton was made by Captain Gerrish, of the Hanover team, who kicked a placement goal from the 18-yard line. Gerrish missed another try at a placement kick from the 30-yard line...