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Creede kicked off to Wendell who ran in 22 yards to the 30-yard line. Graustein on a pretty end run carried the ball to mid-field. Minot punted to Amherst's 15-yard line where the ends downed their man without a gain. After a 5-yard loss, Creede punted to Graustein, who took the ball to Amherst's 37-yard line. Wendell made first down on a 12-yard gain and on the next play made 5 yards more. L. Smith ran 15 yards and scored on a forward pass from Potter. T. H. Frothingham failed to kick...
...second half, 1911 kicked off to 1912, for whom French, in two line bucks, gained 15 yards. A fumble gave the Juniors the ball in mid-field, but, after some good line plunging, they were forced to kick. The 1912 team blocked the kick and recovered the ball on the Juniors' 45-yard line. A forward pass was tried again unsuccessfully and Heath and Foster again gained well on their skin-tackle and line-bucking plays. When at last they were held for downs on 1912's 40-yard line, they stole the ball on the next play...
...fell on the ball on Harvard's 16-yard line. A delayed pass gained four yards, but Frothingham intercepted a forward pass, running to his 30-yard line before he was tackled. A few line plays, followed by an exchange of punts, game Frothingham an opportunity to run to mid-field, but O'Flaherty was caught holding and it was Harvard's ball on her 25-yard line.6Courtesy of the Boston Globe.DIAGRAM OF THE WEST POINT GAME...
After the first team had been sent in, the substitutes lined up against the second team, the latter taking the ball in mid-field. A fumbled punt, several gains outside tackle, and a forward pass gave the second the ball near the substitutes' goal. In three line plays the ball was rushed over the line, Tryon making the only score of the afternoon. For the rest of the scrimmage the substitutes played with only ten men, Rogers having been taken out. With this handicap, and by means of very ragged playing, the substitutes twice forced the ball to the second...
...Rogers and Captain Fish in his position at right tackle. In three and one-half minutes the Harvard team carried the ball the entire length of the field and over the Williams goal. Minot ran the kick-off to his 30-yard line, five rushes put the ball in mid-field, an onside kick was recovered by G. G. Browne on Williams's 40-yard line, Frothingham ran twenty yards, and in three plays Minot scored. Withington tied the score by kicking the goal...