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...increase their score, though their play as a whole was not so brilliant as in the first half of the game. Herrick made a fine diagonal run, gaining half the length of the field, and followed it up soon after with a touch-down some distance to the right of the goal. Seamans tried a place-kick, but (for the first time in a match, we believe) failed to kick it over. The Canadians now made a desperate rally, and following up their long drop-kicks with good running and tackling, kept the ball uncomfortably near Harvard's goal...
...play soon proceeded, the Canadians still acting on the defensive. About twenty minutes after the game began, an accident occurred which seriously marred our thus far uninterrupted pleasure. Mr. Whiting, in an almost hopeless attempt to rush through three men, slipped and fell, breaking the smaller bone of the right leg just above the ankle. Fortunately a surgeon was near by, and Mr. Whiting was immediately removed from the field and properly cared for. Fourteen men, - one of them a substitute, - no goals on either side, and an hour and ten minutes to play. The game went on, fiercer than...
...time-keeper, and as such cannot be relied upon." It says further, that Mr. L. J. Powers, President of the Charter Oak Park at Springfield, took the time of each mile, and according to his watch Yale made the four miles in 21.01. This is undoubtedly more nearly right than the time-keeper's guess-work, and should be substituted for the figures given in our account of the race. The correct time of our crew would be about 21:30. It is necessary to have these figures correct, as the Record says, to prevent us from misrepresentation...