Word: scored
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...season came on October 11 in a game with the heavy Worcester Academy team, where the Freshmen showed their power and aggressiveness in a 27-10 victory. Toward the end of the game, with the entrance of many substitutes, the yearlings' attack gradually weakened, allowing Worcester to score twice. Far too many fumbles were made in this game and the Freshmen were unable to complete a single really successful pass. W. H. Churchill starred for the Crimson team and gave an indication of what might be expected of him later...
After a week of hard scrimmages, with particular concentration on the fumbling displayed in the Worcester game, the Freshmen easily rolled up a 26 to 0 score against Groton. Neither team displayed any too great energy and there was still a tendency to fumble. Churchill was again the individual star, but in this game C. C. Buell and G. Owen ran him a close race for first honors...
...lone defeat of the season was administered by the strong Princeton freshmen who won by a score of 13 to 0. The Crimson team was dazzled by the speed and cleverness of the Tigers but nevertheless put up a good defensive fight and in the last quarter twice threatened the Princeton goal. Twice also they held the Orange and Black for downs within their five-yard line. Churchill, Buell, Owen, and H. W. Clark, the Crimson centre, were the bulwark of a defense that kept down what might have been a larger score...
When the referee blows the final whistle of the contest in the Stadium this afternoon the little red-sweatered automaton whose frantic motions and resounding voice have became familiar to a generation of football followers will have completed his thirteenth successive season as score-keeper. "Eddie" Morris is his name, and in his time he has signalled to the score-board the story of every University game played in the Stadium. In the course of the last two decades he has communicated to the spectators, the telegraphers, and the press reporters on the roof of the Stadium the details...
...energetic little wig-wagger is the eyes of the score-board, and the spectator who can interpret his contortions can follow the game as readily as if he were on the sidelines...