Word: midfielder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Team A was once more given the ball for an attack in midfield. Cheek made a four yard run and then repeated passes were incompleted. A throw front Coady to Crosby was finally caught and netted a 20-yard gain which was followed by another pass from Cheek to Crosby for a touchdown. Cheek missed the goal...
...hence would allow more frequent, run-backs. He took this stand instead of the more common one that good kickers kick over the goal too often under the present rule. "A good kicker," he said, "can kick over the goal line from 60 yards away as easily as from midfield...
Yale made the first goal after 42 minutes of play. Driggs of the Crimson team then took the ball from midfield through the entire Eli team and scored a point for the University. The Freshmen held the Elis scoreless until the very end of the game when the Blue got the winning goal...
...thing that saved the day for the Blue was Pond's forty-eight yard run for a touchdown in the opening period. With Yale in possession of the ball at midfield, Pond drove at the Army's right tackle but ran into a nest of waiting Cadets. Shaking these off, he broke to his left, stiff-armed two more tacklers and raced the remaining distance to the goal line...
...Thomas Hitchcock Jr., famed internationalist, in the finals of the national open championship at Meadow Brook, L. I., and bore off the title 6 goals to 5. Hitchcock, relying on Louis E. Stoddard, onetime internationalist, at back, twice tied the count with spectacular efforts- one a blow from midfield. At the desperate finish, his play was "as a wild man's," but without support. The Midwicks rode together, gave Pedley's brillance a solid setting...