Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Coach Wachter again said that he hoped that several football men would come out within the week for the basketball work is beneficial to football players inasmuch as it makes them more alert and active and improves their passing game...
Taking the game as a whole, the much heralded Harvard machine machine was outplayed by a Princeton team which was supposed to know less football, but which in reality was a far more alert aggregation, both offensively and defensively. Excerpts from the Yale News...
...fine play. Lourie, however, sistently fell back in kiek formation attempted to skirt the ends that he might display his forte-open field running. Time and again-hindered it must said by off-color passing from Callahan he was thrown for losses, especially Kane and Hubbard, who played exceedingly alert bruising games, but couldn't last the whole distance. Garrity's plunging was of a high order; behind Keek and Hooper, the former New back, aided by especially effective interference by Gilroy seemed to roll off center defense and inside the tack into a free field where Havemeyer, played...
...Princeton. Even Saturday a marked improvement was shown in every department of the game. The blue-clad team played hard, fast football. The eleven that a little over a week ago was heavy of foot and slow of wit was changed into a hard-tackling, fast-running, and alert aggregation. There were few missed tackles, almost no fumbles, and the interference, ragged in the extreme against Boston College, showed a decided improvement. However, it is not that the development of the team has been advanced, although that is an achievement of great importance, but the fact that there has been...
Owen was the only man to score in a hard scrimmage against the scrubs yesterday afternoon. Once he smashed through the line, broke loose, and dashed 40 yards for a touchdown, evading the alert second team defense by clever dodging tactics. Later, after the University eleven had pushed the seconds back yard by yard, Fitzgerald, who started at quarter as a result of his brilliant work against Williams, sent him plunging through the line for the other score. Then the substitutes were sent in and the play seesawed back and forth without either side threatening to score during the remainder...