Word: attack
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Little significance could be attached to the results of the North Carolina game. Although the Bull Dog showed a somewhat improved attack in tallying 34 points, the Southerners were even weaker than the Springfield aggregation. The visitors' lone touchdown was due not to the weakness of the Yale defense but to an unusual circumstance; one of their backs scooped up the ball, which had bounced back from the goal post after an attempted field goal, and carried it across for a touchdown before the amazed Elis had realized what had happened...
...famous Boston College game the fears and prophecies of the early season critics were realized. In a game in which the "mighty" Yale eleven was clearly outplayed and outclassed by Coach Cavanaugh's machine it was evident that Yale's attack was entirely lacking in drive and in organization. Nor was the strength of her defense sufficient to justify the claim of the Yale supporters that Dr. Sharpe had intentionally neglected offensive training in order to first construct an impregnable defense...
...next week the still improving eleven pushed 31 points over on the Maryland team, registering a touchdown in every playing period and injecting a field goal for good measure. As the Maryland team was the weakest they had met, the strength of their attack still remained a matter of doubt. But as to the ability of Kempton, as a field general, there could no longer be any question. He handled his eleven with consummate skill, taking advantage of every opportunity that was offered...
Against the comparatively strong Brown team it seemed at first as if the Bull Dog was dropping back to its earlier season form. Fumbling and stumbling through two quarters of erratic football, four times bringing the ball within scoring distance of the Brown goal, the Yale attack lacked the final drive necessary to put the ball across. But in the final half, the Bull Dog recovered from its temporary slump and scored their two touchdowns...
...particular weakness that had not been hitherto revealed was the inability of Yale to cope with an aerial attack. Brown made several gains, of from ten to twenty yards, on passes that could easily have been blocked...