Word: straight
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Instead of having the board track for winter running on Holmes Field, as has been customary heretofore, a track of identical dimensions is in the process of erection on Soldiers Field between the Locker Building and the Stadium. The new track is to have a 50-yard straight away entirely independent of the circular track. Both tracks will be ready for use immediately after the Christmas recess...
...score of the first half was 1 to 1, Prince scoring first for Adnvoer on straight play while Harvard made its goal on a penalty kick by Greene. In the second half Andover succeeded in keeping the ball in Harvard's territory most of the time though they were unable to score until near the end of the game, so good was the Freshman defence. The deciding tally was made on a kick from the side of the field by Kwan which fell into the crowd of players in front of the goal-posts and was finally pushed through...
...Corbett after one of Minot's punts had been blocked, making the final score 8 to 0 in Yale's favor. As had been expected, the game was essentially a kicking game in which Coy had the advantage over Minot, nor was either team able to score on "straight" football. The punting made the game a very open one, in which brilliant individual plays were very frequent. The game was hard-fought from beginning to end, Harvard excelling in the straight rushing, while Yale entirely offset this by excellent judgement and punting. O'Flaherty, the Harvard quarterback, did not appear...
Notwithstanding these set-backs, Coach Haughton has gone straight ahead and formed an eleven which throughout the fall has been a "coming" team. In each game it has shown a consistent improvement in spite of the fact that in almost every instance some of the regulars were not in the line-up. The development has been somewhat slow, for Coach Haughton has used the same methods and tactics which he employed a year ago. In the early games, which the University team had practically no difficulty in winning, the new material was given a try-out. It was not until...
...Haven, Conn., November 8, 1909. --The first team was given a long secret signal practice today, after which all the men that played in the Brown game on Saturday were excused. The second eleven lined up against the third in a short scrimmage, which was characterized by straight, old-fashioned football...