Word: forth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Both teams went to work with a will at once. For nearly three quarters of an hour the ball went back and forth without either side scoring. Harvard's attack shot again and again, and shot accurately, but H. Hodge in goal turned the ball aside each time, and frequently followed it up, securing it and sending it far down the field. At last Hale tipped it to Gardner, who got a low throw unchecked, and sent the ball twisting between the posts. Time, 43 minutes...
...teams quickly changed goals and the ball was faced again. After fifteen minutes of spirited play, during which the defence fields of both teams exchanged a number of long throws, the ball fell into the hands of our attack who for the first time tipped back and forth in their effective team play and secured a goal swiped by Blodgett...
...date of the first freshman game with Yale has been fixed and is now little more than a week distant. This game takes place on our own grounds, and eighty-nine should put forth every effort to win. Yale has this year an unexceptionally strong freshman nine, if we may judge from the accounts which come from New Haven; but by keeping in strict training, and by practicing steadily, there is no reason why our freshmen should not make things ???ively for their opponents. But training and practice must be attended to if eighty-nine wishes to make a good...
Dudley, Blodgett and Hale now settled down to work, and "see-sawed" the ball back and forth very cleverly, getting repeated shots. One of these shots made by Blodgett, spun along the ground and between the posts. Time, 6 minutes...
Again the ball was faced, and Hood carried it down the field, where it travelled back and forth from one Harvard player's stick to another for five minutes, when Hale shot successfully, scoring the third goal for our team...