Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale defeated the Crescents at Brooklyn Tuesday by a score of 18 to 0. Stagg played end-rush on the Yale team and will fill that position regularly hereafter. Bull, Terry and Beecher played with the Crescents...
Dassett, '90, of Dartmouth, is the heaviest centre rush in the country...
...yard line and kicked. Saxe caught it on the run and got thirty yards. Stickney, Saxe and Fearing gained 13 yards but Pennsylvania's rushers broke through and got the ball. Valentine ran around Cumnock's end and gained twenty yards. On the third down Thayer bunted through the rush line and gained the register five yards. Three more downs, and Thayer kicked. Chureh tackled Saxe when he tried to run on catching the ball. Blanchard failed to gain and Trafford kicked. Hulme made a fine run diagonally across the field and gained twenty yards. Cumnock broke through and downed...
...moment, however, and Pennsylvania began forcing it ahead. Valentine and Hulme went through the Harvard rushers at will and the ball was at Harvard's ten-yard line. Thayer fumbled and P. Trafford fell on the ball. Trafford kicked and P. Trafford picked up the leather and rushed 15 yards. Lee and Saxe fumbled badly, but Harvard luckily kept the ball. On Saxe's fumble again, Pennsylvania got the ball and Hulme, Valentine and Dewey advanced it twenty-five yards nearer Harvard's line. On a foul Harvard got the play and Lee made fifteen yards. Harding made a poor...
...fully realized and the one sided score does not show how hard Harvard had to work to win. Pennsylvania played a hard and tricky game and was only kept from scoring by the sharpest work. Several times the ball was carried the length of the field by short, quick rushes, which the Harvard rush line seemed unable to check. The other weak points in Harvard's play were poor passing, fumbling by the halfbacks, and inability of the rush line to hold their opponents long enough to give the fullback a fair chance to kick. The team played hard...