Word: midfielder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bates never crossed midfield and got only three first downs against a Harvard line that has hardly been changed since spring practice. Harvard 48, Bates...
...University team was given the ball in midfield starting the scrimmage and immediately made two first downs Mays, sophomore back, ripped off two yards putting the ball on the Second's 15 yard line. Harper added four yards and then Putnam uncorked a lateral pass to Mays who ran the remaining yards to a touchdown Putnam's kick was good...
Just before the close of the scrimmage, Crawford prevented another potential 1932 score when he intercepted a pass on his own 25-yard line. On the next play he hurled a pass to R. S. Ogden '31 at midfield, who twisted and dodged his way for the third touchdown. Crawford's drop kick was good...
...scrubs kicked off again and Putnam ran the ball-back to midfield. On the next play a lateral pass from Putnam to French netted 50 yards and another touchdown, but the first team was offside and the pigskin was called back. The penalty, however, did not stop the University eleven. In eight plays with Batchelder and A. W. Huguley '31 doing most of the carrying, the ball was put over for the second and last score of the afternoon. Huguley made the touchdown on a line buck from the four yard line. Putnam's kick again failed to chalk...
They stood motionless for a moment at the toss-in; then the eight ponies twisted and straightened their necks and the last period started. Two minutes later, number one on the U. S. four, William Averell Harriman, carried the ball up from midfield and scored through a tangle at the goal. Five and a half minutes later the people in the stands stood cheering in the rain because the U. S., after trailing at 2-5, had won, by a score of 7-6, the first game in the series intended to decide the "Championship of the Americas...