Word: forwarding
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...right inside forward for Penn, was the star of the game, scoring all four goals for his team...
...Harvard excelled in the backfield and her runners were faster and more slippery. So strong and connected were the line assaults of the Crimson, that Yale was compelled to man its line of forward at all times with seven players, thereby protecting its backfield area with only four...
...goal-line was twice threatened. There was no question, however, where the offensive superiority lay. Harvard rushed the ball one hundred and ninety-five yards, while Yale gained only sixty-eight in this way. Harvard made sixteen first downs compared with five for Yale, but it was in the forward passing game that the eleven showed itself so vastly superior. The team started its passes in the first few plays and so successful were they, that sixteen were thrown during the game, of which nine were completed for a total gain of one hundred and twenty-five yards...
Parke Davis, New York Herald authority, says "Harvard's battle plan, resourceful and lively, was an assault by forward passes. This system of attack continued-intermittently during the first half. Four of these assaults by air succeeded, carrying the Crimson forward seventy-five yards...
Grantland Rice, in the New York Tribune, says: "How then did Harvard look compared with Princeton? Harvard rushed the ball even more effectively against the Blue than did Princeton. The Crimson attack gained more ground, made more first downs by rushing, and made more first downs by forward passes...