Word: towards
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...defensive game is more individual and not characterized by particular team work; the tackling is very poor. Taken as a whole, this department of the game is something like last year's defense. Its raggedness makes it weak. But yet it seems to improve as the team is forced toward its own goal-line. This is one of its redeeming qualities. The fact that Yale's opponents have crossed her goal line but once during the season shows that the defense is really stronger than it appears...
Plunging, plunging toward the goal line...
...admitted, not only into the Conservatory orchestra and chorus, but also into its courses in ensemble playing, choir training, and liturgical music. These courses include historical and theoretical work as well as practical application. For regular attendance at any of the Conservatory courses, the University will allow credits toward the degrees of bachelor and master of arts...
Yale defeated West Point last Saturday in a hard fought game by the score of 10 to 6, scoring all the ten points in the second half. West Point, using the forward pass to good advantage, scored a touchdown toward the end of the first half, from which Mountford kicked the goal. Throughout the first period, Yale was distinctly outplayed, and repeatedly the linesmen were thrown back by the more aggressive West Point forwards. Jones's work at quarterback was far below his usual game and his wretched handling of punts handicapped Yale severely...
...section under rule 11, providing that no players on the side which has the ball shall be in motion at the moment when the ball is put into play, is construed to mean that this will not prevent a player from running backward from the scrimmage line toward his own goal line...