For the fourth time the New Haven men struggled to the Cantabrigian twenty-yard line.
Within fifteen minutes, an exchange of punts brought the ball to Yale's thirty-yard line.
The team lined up for the scrimmage on Lake Forest's forty-yard line, and the game was fairly on.
At the ten-yard line, the Rally Hall boys braced, and the enemy lost the ball on downs.
Once, on the Lake Forest thirty-yard line, the home boys tried out a trick play that Professor Raymond had taught them.
When it came down the Hammond right-tackle found it, fought his way over two white streaks and was finally pulled to earth on the forty-yard line.
They were trying out the first's defense and although twice Roy stood inside of the first's ten-yard line, the practice ended without a score for the second.
The first fifteen-minute half ended with the ball in possession of the second on the first's twenty-yard line.
Pryor fell back to the fifteen-yard line, there was a breathless moment of suspense, and then the ball went arching up the field, turning lazily over and over in its flight.
But Dick managed to put enough fight into his team to enable it to withstand the further assaults of the enemy, and the half ended with the ball on Fardale's ten-yard line.
He darted to the right, to the left, bowled one man over, and on he went clean to Franklin's thirty-yard line.
With the ball down for the first time on Franklin's forty-yard line, the cadets could not make a gain, and were forced to kick.
They saw Dick Merriwell was going to try to kick a goal from the thirty-five-yard line.
The Tigers gained | |the ball on a fumble after a fake punt | |and lined up on their own 45-yard line.
He chose his opening, and, kicking low, as Tompkins had coached him, had the joy of seeing the ball go flying over the ground and out of bounds at the forty-yard line.
The ball lay inside the ten-yard line, within the sacred zone.
Gridley now had the ball for snap-back at its own twenty-five-yard line.
Gridley got the ball down to the enemy's fifteen-yard line, then saw it slowly forced back into their own territory.
He had the entire bunch against him, trying to block his play, but with wonderful skill managed to dodge each in turn, until when finally brought down he had reached the enemy's ten-yard line!
There was an exchange of punts on the next kick-off, and when that sort of playing was over, Clifford had the pigskin on Columbia's thirty-yard line.
At least, it is true that Benton came nearer to scoring than her adversary when, on Brimfield's five-yard line, she lost possession of the ball by a fumble.
Canterbury tried two plunges and then punted from her twenty-five-yard line to Brimfield's fifty.
Highland twice reached the Blue's ten-yard line, the first time losing the ball on downs, and the next attempting a forward pass that went astray.
There an off-side penalty set her back, and, after two attempts at rushing that produced but three yards, she kicked to the five-yard line.
Three times in the first period the rushing red-legged players had the Blue team down inside the five-yard line, and three times they were stopped by the stone-wall defense.
With the ball on the Yale ten-yard line it looked as if no power in the Yale team, at least, could stop the victorious march.
A pretty forward pass, Turner to Bostwick, put the ball on Pawling's 15-yard line.
Second has the ball on its own twenty-yard line, and is trying to save its goal.
Tucking the pigskin under his arm, he jogged back to the twenty-five-yard line.
The ball oscillated from one twenty-five-yard line to the other, Hillton and St. Eustace both looking for an opportunity to send a back around for a run and finding none.
The ball went twisting, and, changing its course in the strengthening wind, escaped the clutches of Macnooder and went bounding toward the goal where Charlie DeSoto saved it on the twenty-five-yard line.
Phillipsburg punted every time she got the ball, with the one thought of keeping the adversary outside her twenty-five-yard line.
The ball was Ridgley's on its own twenty-five-yard line.
During the rest of this quarter there was a good deal of seesawing back and forth and neither side seemed to have the advantage, until Tom Curwood recovered a fumble on the visitors' twenty-five-yard line.
But they did not quite succeed in scoring; with thirty seconds more to play, Ridgley had the ball on Wilton's five-yard line.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yard line" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
