Word: downing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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A study of Harvard's play shows very little. Harvard did a little better than Yale in punting; her punts were longer, the ends got down well and tackled brilliantly, and an exchange of punts usually lost ground for Yale. There were many other departments of the game in which...
Yale showed individual work only occasionally. Fincke made a seventy yard run after recovering a fumbled punt, but even in this the reliable team play of the Yale eleven gave him the interference which made it possible. At another time Coy knocked down a pass from one Harvard player to...
Kendall kicked off to Fincke on Yale's twenty-five yard line, and Harvard held Yale on two downs. Hale punted to the middle of the field; Sawin and Ellis gained a first down, but then Sawin was forced to punt. Sharpe got the ball on Yale's five yard line, and with Hale and the tackles then started another series of short gains through the line. The ball was slowly carried to Harvard's thirty yard line, where Harvard got it for holding. On the next play Sawin punted to Sharpe on Yale's forty yard line. Sharpe fumbled...
Captain Daly and Campbell then left the game and Fincke and Bowditch took their places. Sharpe caught Burnett's kick-off on the twenty-five yard line and on the next down Bloomer made five yards. Stillman was substituted for Ellis. Hale punted to the middle of the field, and...
The first part of the practice was punting, Sawin kicking to Daly and Kendall, with Campbell and Hallowell running down the field. Stillman and Ellis also made some long twirling punts. No line-up followed, but both regular men and substitutes ran through signals for twenty-five minutes. The self...