Word: strength
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Daly's work in the back-field was good and perhaps the best part of his game. The Yale team showed so much unexpected strength that his plan of attack required complete and constant changes some of which were open to slight criticism. Sawin was decidedly the best halfback in the game. He played in perfect accord with Daly, and clipped many yards off of McBride's punts by his clever, dodging runs. He made the longest gain of the day by a 33 yard run around Gibson in the first half. The end plays and double passes around...
...progressive development which has marked the team, the defense was taken up earlier than the offense and has been worked to perfection. W. H. Lewis has drilled the team in a method of meeting mass plays which, for its efficiency, depends on aggressiveness and mere strength. Up to the Indian game, Harvard had not been scored upon and the scoring in that game was due to an individual weakness and to the presence of substitutes in the line. Pennsylvania could not make consistent gains either around the ends or through the line...
...tendency to lose his head and is now a very steady player. Campbell has adjusted himself to the team more easily than any of the new men, and Daly plays the same game as last year. Kendall is a brilliant line bucker and Sawin dodges well, and Ellis's strength is in line plunging, although he is apt to fumble...
...backs are well up to the standard, though in the harder games already played, they have not shown the strength in line bucking which was expected on account of their weight. McBride has maintained his reputation as a punter and line bucker, and it is largely to his careful coaching and management that the excellent development of the team...
...action of the athletic committee in doing away with preliminary practice was a mistake. Beginning a season with so-called "minor games" does not answer the same purpose. the average knowledge of the game and the average strength and efficiency of players the country over have increased with such rapidity that any game, even the first, may be a hard one. The men are both safer physically and better students, as well as better football players for a preliminary period of training and practice. The minor faults may be summed up as follows: 1. Failure to provide for the individual...