Word: touchdowns
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...gains. Even when the second team got the ball, it was unable to gain its distance. The most noticeable feature of the game was Hadden's breaking through and blocking Rankin's punt on Brown's 50-yard line, recovering the ball and running down the field for a touchdown. The best playing for Brown was done by Jarvis, Smith and Captain Rankin...
Saturday afternoon the football team of the Phillips Exeter Academy defeated the Freshmen on Soldiers Field, by the score of 6 to 0. Exeter's touchdown was the result of a familiar trick play. At the beginning of the second half Cutler kicked off to Lewis, who ran the ball back twenty yards and then returned the kick to the middle of the field, where Loftus recovered it and carried it over the line. Lewis kicked the goal. With the exception of the touchdown, the game was devoid of sensational features, and the onside kicks and forward passes proved unsuccessful...
Score--Exeter, 6; Harvard Freshmen, 0. Touchdown -- Loftus. Goal from touchdown--Lewis. Umpire -- Stevenson Field judge--Andrews. Referees--Palmer and Short. Linesmen--McNeil and Blanchard. Timer--Lathrop. Time--20-minute halves...
...touchdown was made by straight rushing down the field after a blocked punt on the Freshmen's 20-yard line. Gray gained six yards through centre, but Corbett upset the next play. Wendell then ran the ball to the 8-yard line, but the team was penalized 20 yards for his hurdling. Fish gained 10 yards running from position and in two more plays, Gray made a touchdown...
...practice yesterday consisted of a 15-minute scrimmage with the Freshman eleven, in which the University team scored one touchdown and a goal from placement. The playing of the University team was marred by altogether too frequent penalties, and much unnecessary roughness...