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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Harvard's touchdown was made on straight line plays from its own 40-yard line. White not only carried the ball over Brown's goal line for the touchdown, but made every first down. Brown's score came as the result of a punt which went over Cutler's head and was recovered on the goal line for a safety. Harvard nearly scored on two other occasions in the second half. Once the team was held on Brown's 14-yard line, and when time was called at the end of the game MacKay had just blocked Brown's punt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLEAR VICTORY OVER BROWN | 11/2/1908 | See Source »

Yale easily defeated Massachusetts Agricultural College, 49-0, at New Haven last Saturday. The visiting team had only one chance to score, when, in the first half, they got the ball on Yale's 15-yard line. Yale played straight football during the entire game. The regular team was used in the first half, with the exception of the quarterback and ends, who are out of the game on account of injuries. Of the nine touchdowns, Coy made 4, Philbin 2, Daley 2, and Holt 1. The Yale team lined up as follows: l.e., Logan, Freeman; l.t., Hobbs, Lilley, Carter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Secured Easy Victory, 49 to 0 | 11/2/1908 | See Source »

...result of yesterday's racing, Claverly, Mount Auburn Street, Beck-Hampden-Fairfax, Randolph, and Thayer have been selected by Coach Wray and Captain. Severance to compete in the straight-away race today. This race, which will settle the interdormitory championship of the Filley Cup, will be rowed upstream over the one and one-half mile course from the Union boathouse to the Longwood bridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINAL DORMITORY RACE AT 4 | 10/30/1908 | See Source »

This afternoon's racing should prove interesting, as upon it will depend largely the selection of the four crews to row in the straight-away race in the basin tomorrow. This race will take place at 4 o'clock and will be rowed downstream over the one and one-half mile course. The crews are being carefully watched by Coach Wray and Captain Severance, in whose hands the selection will rest. At, present, Mount Auburn Street, Claverly, Second Mount Auburn Street, and Weld seem the most likely selections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE BUMPS IN RACES | 10/29/1908 | See Source »

...scrimmage between the substitutes and the second eleven lasted twenty minutes and resulted in one touchdown for the former team, which was made on straight line plunging from the middle of the field. The second team used the forward pass with considerable success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEAM HELD SECRET PRACTICE | 10/28/1908 | See Source »

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