Word: forwarding
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...been an old established tradition of the Harvard system of football that the forward pass is seldom used except in an emergency. As a result of the Princeton game, this tradition has come into a great deal of criticism and it is generally believed that had the University opened up with some of the heaves, which proved so disconcerting to their opponents, earlier in the game, the final score would not have been a tie. It will not be surprising if the next two games show a reversion from this policy...
...Soldiers Field. This year's contest was possibly less full of freaks and thrills, but was nevertheless crowded with exciting breaks which threw the balance first one way and then the other. Like last year, a Princeton victory seemed certain till a whirlwind of forward passes near the end of the last period performed the "impossible." This time the aerial combination was Buell and Macomber, not Felton and Casey, and the pass was not a flat pass over the line of scrimmage, but a long heave that was plucked out of the air by Macomber only a few yards from...
Princeton's forward passing game, much-vaunted as it was, did not pan out as successfully as was intimated. Except for the Murrey-Lourie loss that scored the touchdown, the Princeton passes that were successful, 5 out of 10 tries, gained only short distances in the middle of the field...
...Princeton scores came like a bolt from the blue. Shortly after the opening of the second half, Murrey dropped back into kick formation, as Lourie sped forward with an interferer at his side, not to turn until he reached up and snared Murrey's perfectly timed throw. Churchill partially misjudged the trajectory of the ball and was nullified by interference almost immediately. Lourie reversed his field, sped past Fitzgerald, outwitting this last cog in the University's defense, and zigzagging his way to the line...
...poetry in the last twenty-four hours. The neatness and dispatch that has always characterized Buell's play and the speed exhibited by Fitts seemed to galvanize a dispirited attack into action. It was the Irony of fate that Roper saw his charges robbed of victory by a forward pass that outwitted his secondary defense. The Princeton back over whose head the pass was slung was Cleaves, recently substituted on account of his excellent breaking up of forwards against the Navy and West Virginia, a department at which Murrey did not excel...