Word: played
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...difficult to detect a single redeeming feature in the playing of the University eleven on Saturday. With only a week before the game for which the entire season is preparatory, there still remain several fundamentals of football to be learned by the players. After the first two minutes, the team did not pretend to play hard football. Of course the wet ball and the slippery field excused many faults, but the team has overcome these difficulties in other games. The game Saturday showed a reaction, perhaps a slump...
...ragged. Again and again they attempted to pick up the ball on fumbles instead of dropping on it. These errors and frequent offsides gave the ball to Dartmouth at critical times, and prevented much scoring by Harvard. The whole eleven tackled poorly. In contrast to the other points of play, the punting was good. Hallowell's kicks in general were high and long, but nevertheless, he fumbled the ball twice when passed back to him by Sargent. Considering the conditions, Sargent's passing was very good...
...defeated Saturday night by the Boston Young Men's Christian Union with a score of 12 1 - 2 to 6 1 - 2. One game was unfinished and will be adjudicated this week. On Wednesday there will be a match with the Somerville Y.M.C.A., in which seven men will play on a side...
...friends, his classmates or his contemporaries. Their record is a part of his college experience in which he has a very natural pride. It seems to me only just, therefore, that for his three or four years in college he should have the best opportunity to watch their play and to encourage it, and then that he in turn should give way to the next generation. However ready we graduates may be to take advantage of the privileges which have been given us, I am much mistaken if there are not many who feel that, when it interferes with...
...practice game with the second eleven lasted five minutes. Gierasch scored' one touchdown on an end play from the middle of the field, and Ristine another on a fumble. The signals for the Yale game were used and are satisfactory...