Word: runner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with suggestions of immense potential power and knowledge of the game. Its feet, for the first time in several seasons, rest upon the bed-rock of fundamental excellence. No Yale team at any time of any season since 1913 has shown better grasp of the art of bringing a runner to earth. There was a powerful line-charge, which carried the forwards into the path of the ball; the ends smashed in and worked well with the men in the tackle positions. The ball was closely followed, blocking was cleanly done, and, above all, the interference, both in the line...
...Ames prize consists of two cash prizes of $200 and $100, awarded respectively to the winning club and the runner...
...Bechtel; '17, and R. W. Babcock '17. All of the above have already reported except Whitehouse who has been laid up with a bad foot. The University squad is greatly strengthened by additional men from last year's Freshman team, which placed four men ahead of the leading Yale runner a year ago. J. D. Hutchinson, captain of the 1919 track and cross-country teams, has been showing up particularly well. G. H. Tilghman '19 and E. H. Kelton '19 are also promising runners. Other sophomores who add to the strength of the squad include J. M. Greene...
...originally intended to send a distance runner as the third member of the team, but the only man eligible for this place was Ray of Chicago, and it was impossible for him to make the trip...
...strongest opponents. Certainly, he has the material to work with. In Driggs he has a punter good for any distance up to sixty yards, and a man who showed late last season that he knows how to turn the ends. In Tibbott he has a dangerous open field-runner and an expert drop-kicker. In Moore he has a fast, elusive back. We shall see Princeton this year making a lot of use of her backfield in the way of returning kick-offs. The Tigers last season showed a very interesting protective system for a man coming back with...