Word: midfields
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...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...
...this wedge, the captain stood at midfield with the ball. The remaining ten men formed in two lines, the five lighter on one side, the heavier on the other, extending back diagonally across the field. At the signal the two lines ran forward, converged at the captain's post and kept on in a diagonal direction, gradually turning to form a wedge behind the apex of which the runner was safe for a 20 or 30 yard gain...
...Manhattan hotel, they fell to discussing the forward pass, gesticulated, went to the Polo Grounds to suit action to words. In friendly contest, Friedman, running, threw the ball more accurately at a given target. Dooley, long of arm and flat of hand, seized the ball and threw it from midfield over the cross bar of the goal posts. Friedman tried, fell short...
...Wilson, Army back, bored to a touchdown; the Navy dropped a punt, the Army scored again, and while guns went off, cornets brayed, airplanes skipped, tanks gamboled, men in blue and men in grey marched and countermarched and the Secretary of War met the Secretary of the Navy in midfield and shook hands politely. The score was 14 to 14. Cagle of the Army finagled through 44 yards for a touchdown. Shapley of the Navy lost his temper but kept enough control to pave the way for another touchdown. Score...