Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...line in the last few games, however. Lockwood and Gilbert are the first substitute halfbacks. Lockwood is valuable on account of his speed, but his interference and defensive work is weak. Cutting and Starr have been put in at halfback in practice and have shown streaks of very brilliant playing...
...university team was able to score only two touchdowns and the work was very ragged and discouraging. The team made a somewhat better showing, however, in the game with Springfield Training School, in which 17 points to 0 were scored. Possibilities for a great eleven were shown, yet brilliant individual football rather than steady team play characterized the game. On October 14 an old-fashioned, line-smashing style of play enabled Yale to run up 52 points without allowing Holy Cross even a chance to score. The strong Army team proved the hardest proposition of the preliminary season. West Point...
...tournaments than the others. This experience has made him the best tactician. Niles uses the twist service entirely and to good advantage, although in a long match it tires him to such an extent that it weakness his game. All his strokes are hard and fast. He is extremely brilliant, but equally erratic. His best position is at the net, and his reach allows him to cover a great deal of court. When he is at the top of his game, he is a hard man to beat, and will rank among the best players of this country...
...Dabney has the best form of all, resembling W. A. Larned's style very much. His swing is free and easy, both fore and backward. At times he is brilliant overhead. His service can be improved on, and when running to the net his tendency is to volley too carelessly. With more tournament play, he should rank among the first ten players, as he understands the game thoroughly...
...Yale football team defeated Princeton by the score of 12 to 10 last Saturday in a brilliant and exciting game after being completely outplayed in the first half. During this period Princeton scored a touchdown on a 72-yard run by Booth after a blocked onside kick, and a goal from the field by Harlow from the 15-yard line. Three other times Princeton was within scoring distance, but each time the try for a field goal was unsuccessful, while Yale was never inside Princeton's 40-yard line...