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Identifier: outing55newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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...in the Princeton game, the year before ,he had actually averaged, in a succession of some seven or eight plays, nineteen and a fraction yards to the run. As two of these runs carried the ball over the goal line his possible average would have been nearer twenty-five yards. Then, too, Heffelfinger was a bigger man than Gordon Brown; both had been brought up in the same school of football and neither had found his match. Sanford, of McClungs team, was one of the most versatile of centers, and This team was never scored upon by any opponent, and ran up four hundred and eighty-eight points in thirteen games,an average of thirty-six to the game.Surely Gordon Browns team would have had their work cut out to keep this aggregation from knocking at the gates of their goal. Such discussions as this at Yale are typical of similar arguments at other universities. Having had the pleasure of seeing most of these teams play, and following the developments of the game and the players from year to year, it has...
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...occurred to me that many of those who have seen these various organizations come and go would be interested in harking back a little and recalling some of the great elevens of the past. When Harvard came down to New Haven in the fall of 1876, flushed with pride as the conquerors of the All Canadian Rugby team, there were few indeed in the college at New Haven who believed that the Yale team stood any chance against them. In fact, as we measure the game to-day, Yale would have been defeated, but not so under the Rugby Union rules of 1876. These provided that goals only counted, and the only case in which touchdowns had any effect on the score was when neither team secured a goal. Yale scored a field goal and Harvard, try as they would, made each of their three touchdowns at the corner of the field and not one of the goals was kicked.

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