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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first team's 30-yard line. No downs were kept and the second team was told to score. A series of forward passes was tried, several with fair success. After about ten plays Johnson, who was playing quarterback on the second, caught a forward pass and ran for a touchdown, but the play was declared illegal. The first team was then given a chance to carry the ball. The teamwork was better than on the day before, which enabled Long to score after a series of line plunges. The second kicked off to Morrison who ran the ball back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST TEAM SCORED TWICE | 10/15/1909 | See Source »

...Princeton football team was barely able to win from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Princeton yesterday, the final score being 8 to 6. At the close of the first half both teams had scored a touchdown, but Princeton failed to kick the goal, thus leaving Virginia in the lead by one point. In the second half the winning score for Princeton was made by Cunningham, quarterback, on a goal from the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Defeated Virginia, 8 to 6 | 10/14/1909 | See Source »

There was a long scrimmage against the second team, the first half lasting only five minutes, but the second nearly half an hour. The first team scored once, Leslie picking up a fumble on the second's 40-yard line and running for a touchdown. The second team kicked off to the first which carried the ball in short rushes to the second team's 15-yard line, before the first period ended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LONG SCRIMMAGE YESTERDAY | 10/13/1909 | See Source »

...hold Harvard to an 8 to 6 victory. In the first half Williams started off with a rush and caught the University players off their guard. Two careless fumbles in the Harvard backfield, hard tackling by the Williams ends, who followed the ball exceedingly well, resulted in a touchdown for Williams in less than five minutes after the kick-off. Throughout the remainder of the half Harvard was played to a standstill and the half ended with the score 6 to 0 in favor of its opponents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILLIAMS BARELY DEFEATED | 10/11/1909 | See Source »

...ball and Stevens punted over O'Flaherty's head, the ball rolling toward the Harvard goal. Three different men fell on the ball before Pratt, the Williams right end, finally captured it on Harvard's 3-yard line. On the next play J. Brooks plunged through centre for a touchdown and Peterson kicked an easy goal. The score was made in less than five minutes of play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILLIAMS BARELY DEFEATED | 10/11/1909 | See Source »

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