Word: trick
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale tried to run her halfbacks through the center and she gained considerable ground in that way, but all the long runs with the exception of one by Wurtemburg and one by McClung were made by Gill. Yale scored her only touchdown by a cleverly worked trick. With the ball in Yale's possession on Harvard's twenty-yard line three downs were made in succession. On the third, all the Yale players bunched together in the centre and McClung was put in the middle as if to be pushed ahead by sheer force for the requisite gain. He acted...
...second half began at 4.50. White took Saxe's place. Wesleyan worked the criss-cross trick to good advantage and made 15 yards. Harvard prevented Slayback from gaining, and on the next down Hall punted. B. Trafford caught the ball on the dead run and made a beautiful gain of twenty yards. On the second down he punted to Hall. McDonald dodged finely and brought the ball back near the middle of the field. Crosby fell on the ball. It was passed to White but Crane tackled him before he got started. The ball went to Wesleyan on a misplay...
...kick and Blanchard got the ball, but was thrown on twenty-five yard line. Harding rushed again. Nothing gained. Andover kicked. Trafford gained five yards and rushes by Harding and Goldthwai e gained nothing. Addiss got around the end but Dean threw him well. Taylor tried the same trick but was held by Cumnock. Again Andover shoved Harvard's rush line back but was soon forced to kick. Trafford returned, and Andover's ball. Andover lost live yeards but gained ten by running around ends. Harvard's ball on four down. Lee, by two rushes gained thirty five yards. Andover...
...ball behind her goals. Trafford kicked a goal. Score 17-0. After working the ball well ahead Tech. dropped it. Harvard soon forced it near enough for Trafford to kick another goal from the field. Score 21-0. Tech. gained about twenty five yards by playing the criss cross trick. The ball was kicked to Fearing who ran twenty-five yards with it. A kicked ball was missed by Garrison and Hutchinson carried it over. Goal by Trafford. Score 28-0. Another touchdown was secured before time was called. Score...
Harvard uses the power play to defeat the Lakers, 4-2, in the opener, and Ciavaglia nets his first collegiate hat trick to power the Crimson to a 5-2 second-game...