Word: generalship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...season Would be a success to every Crimson graduate and undergraduate. But this year the eleven has dozen more than this. Meeting Yale without a single defeat against them and with their goal line crossed only once, Capt. Murray and his men outgeneraled and outfought the Bulldog who generalship and fighting counted. The slightest failure in any one of a half-dozen situations fully to grasp Harvard's opportunities ties or to stem the tide of the Eli attack would have turned victory in defeat. But in the crucial moments the University did not crash...
...fall of 1913 Murray entered College with the class of 1918. He played on both the Freshman football and baseball teams. During the next two years he was a member of the University squad, winning his "H" in 1916 against Yale. His brilliant running and field generalship assured him a position on the first eleven, but the war broke in on his football career...
...Tiger team, Trimble, by his forward passes, Strubing, by his marvelous field generalship, and Captain McGraw, as the mainstay of the Princeton line, were the outstanding stars. The University eleven was taken unaware by the furious initial onslaught of the Tigers and it took half the game before they could pull together and save themselves from defeat...
...heavier, more experienced players of the Crimson team. Except for frequent fumbling the game was marked by few early-season blunders. E. L. Casey, Occ., started by his clever runs through a broken field, once for 45 yards and again for 65. W. J. Murray, Occ., by his field-generalship and rushing work, and R. Horween, Occ., by his line plunges were deciding factors in the game...
...backfields, however, that the most well-known players are. Coach Leary has in his hard-running combination T. H. Enwright '18, a star line plunger, E. L. Casey '19 and Cannell of Dartmouth, all elusive backs on end and off-tackle plays. The field generalship is in the hands of W. J. Murray '18. On the Rhode Island team there are Barrett of Cornell, star runner and kicker, Cerrish of Dartmouth, a hard line-plunging back, and Purdy, who played at Brown. Hite and Gardner from the Middle West are also strong players...