Word: attack
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...backfield has relied too much on old-fashioned line-plunges and has not shown any indication of having developed an open game. In the early part of the season the backs were slow to get started and it was not until the end of the Princeton game that their attack became so powerful. The position of quarterback has been in doubt all season. Three men were tried during the Princeton game, and it was only the third one that livened up the offense. The defense is not exceptionally strong, as both Brown and Princeton have crossed the Yale goal line...
...gratifying was the ample evidence of strategic football brains and it was quite as much a triumph for the coaching staff as for the players themselves. Every pound of available strength was put into the line-up as it became useful with the result that at the end the attack was just as fierce and the defence as stubborn as at the kick...
...yard line. Crocker got off a clever forward pass to Beard, who ran it out for twenty yards and Minot made the remaining distance in two hard plunges. After this the substitutes tried defensive and offensive work against the second team, and were good at stopping the second's attack. But the second team was a good on the defence and broke up most of its opponents' plays. Withington showed up especially well in the scrimmage. R. Brown and Houston, the ends, did good work in breaking up interference, but were slow in getting down the field on punts. Smith...
...Saturday, the team played without him and showed an ability to forget their handicap, which was capital. There was a splendid aggressiveness and determination evident, culminating in the rush which scored the touchdown, and which moreover was the best executed attack seen on Soldiers Field by a Harvard team in several years. In spite of certain failings, some of which were marked, there was an admirable quality in the way they went about their work and that is the secret of good teams. Moreover it signifies the way they will accept the handicap in the coming two weeks, and gives...
...real opportunity of the year to gain a critical estimate of just what can be expected from this year's team. The games thus far, although one or two have been fairly close and only won by small scores, are of meagre value in estimating the real power of attack and defense. No amount of scrimmaging against a weak line will bring out a team's possibilities. From all accounts the Navy is a strong opponent for this stage of the season, with an aggressive line and quite a variety of backfield men, one or two of whom will stand...