Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...withthat of the academy team was painfully slow and loose. The tackling as a rule was execrable, the blocking was not systematic, and the tendency to fumble the ball was very discouraging. The play of the academy eleven was uniformly good; Hinkey and Gilbert on the ends of the rush line, did some remarkable tackling, and Bliss and Stone supported each other well in their work behind the line...
Play began at half-past three Andover having the ball, and the lively work of the Phillips team completely dazed the freshmen. Stone began the game with a rush of twenty yards; Cochrane carried the ball fifteen yards farther towards Harvard's goal; Bliss ran around the end to the five yard line, and on the next scrimmage Stone found a hole made for him and slipped across the line three minutes after play began. The try for a goal was a failure, but Colt dropped on the ball and secured a second touchdown. The play during the next...
Pennsylvania presented a strong team and Harvard had much harder work to win than the score indicates. Harvard's general play was somewhat disappointing. At times her work was brilliant while at others it was extremely loose. The rush line failed to block well, and Pennsylvania had little trouble in finding holes in it. The tackling except on the part of 3 or 4 men was high and at times far from effective. The blocking off all through the game was weak and much poorer than that in the Wesleyan game of a week ago. In the rush line Hutchinson...
...best work for the University of Pennsylvania in the Yale game and who made the great rush at the outside which enabled Thayer to make the touchdown, was Dewey, who rowed number two on the '92 freshman crew...
...muff of Hulme's and ran behind Pennsylvania's goal. Gill secured another touchdown ten minutes later from a muff of Thayer's. Just before time was called Gill won the first earned touchdown for Yale. After twenty minutes play in the second half Morrison made a fine rush and secured another touchdown for Yale. Hulme scored the last one for Pennsylvania a few minutes later. Following is the make-up of the team...