Turner bored through for eight yards on the first play, and followed it up with enough to make a first down, but there the advance stopped.
Down over the white lines went the Harvard machine, plays timed to perfection and gaining wherever they struck, not much, but enough in three tries to carry them the necessary yards for a first down.
Held at the thirty-yard line with three yards to go for a first down, the Yale quarter sent a pretty forward pass to Armstrong who made a beautiful catch and was not downed till he was run out of bounds at the fifteen-yard line.
First down," cried the referee, jumping nimbly out of the way.
Paul had made four yards outside of tackle, and it was again Erskine's first down on the fifty-five-yard line.
A moment later the ball went to the other side as a penalty for holding, and it was Robinson's first down on Erskine's twelve yards.
That unexpected feat had quite nonplused the visitors and during the next series of plays they showed that it had, for two gains had been made through the left of their line for a first down on the thirty-yard line.
The pigskin was stepped in and Lorimer found herself in the fortunate position of being in possession of the ball on first down on the enemy’s nineteen yards.
Alton decided to kick on first down, and Browne stepped back behind the goal posts.
Moncks got a good gain through center and Harmon made it first down on the scrub’s sixteen.
Ridgley fought hard to advance the ball and gained a first down, then, meeting with no further success, punted.
On the next play Neil Durant slid around right end for a first down and it was now the turn of the red to wave aloft its colors.
Neil Durant then made a line plunge through an opening that the reliable Tom Curwood created and planted the oval five yards from the goal line for a first down.
Dutton slammed into centre for three yards, and then in the same place made more than enough for a first down.
This time the play slammed through the opposite side of the line for three yards to a first down.
Steve was good for four more and a first down on Pomeroy's twenty yard mark!
But, so stimulating was the knowledge that Speed Bartlett was actually on the field, Medford opened up a hole which sent quarterback Pete Slade galloping through for a first down!
Seconds landed on the Varsity's ten yard line for a first down.
Afterwards the centres practised passing and the kickers limbered up a little, but by five the work was over and the fellows were free to do what they liked.
Steve had never taken his chum very seriously as a football player, probably because Tom was not the spectacular sort, but he was forced to acknowledge now that the latter had beaten him at his own game!
A delayed pass by the Claflin quarter gave his side first down on Brimfield's thirty-five-yard line.
Norton punted poorly, the ball going diagonally across the gridiron, and it was Claflin's first down on Brimfield's twenty-eight yards.
From there Norton punted to the Blue's thirty and Claflin returned the punt on first down to her adversary's forty yards.
Canton's first down on Trumbull's eighteen yard line!
Benz was forced to punt again, the eleven not being able to make a first down.
The quarter ended with the ball on Bartlett's seventeen yard line and Pennington's first down.
The ball was on Canton's thirty-nine yard line and Canton's first down.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "first down" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
