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Analysis shows that in each team the line is inferior to the backfield. Consequently as much will depend on the unknown ability of the forward defences to withstand the attacks of the truly brilliant backfields, as will depend on the known strength of these backfields. Perhaps slightly the superior in the line, and of equal power in the backfield, the University team will rely for supremacy to a great extent on the drop-kicking ability of Mahan
Punting for some of the backfield men, a rehearsal of signals, a long drill in which particular attention was given to the perfection of the defence and a short scrimmage constituted the afternoon's work. The University team lined up against the second eleven for half an hour. No tackling was done but the men diagnosed each play and got to the runner as quickly as possible...
...most one-sided game ever played in the history of the two academies Exeter decisively defeated Andover by the score of 78 to 7. In every department of the game Exeter was signally superior to its lighter opponents. The line effectually threw off the futile attacks of the Andover backfield while the Exeter attack, headed by Casey, marched down the field with a succession of terrific line plunges and forward passes and punts which gained ground on every exchange. Humiliated and bumbled, the Andover team was powerless on both the attack and defence...
...Princeton line to shreds, smashing through the opponents' defence for consistent gains of considerable length, baffling the New Jersey team with the double and triple lateral passes which she has so successfully advanced this year, and out punting Princeton on every exchange of kicks. The work of the backfield approached perfection, and the individual playing of Le Gore, the sophomore fullback, was extraordinary, in every way. His fast, fierce rushed Saturday permitted him to gain almost at will, he was on the passing or receiving end of nearly all of the complicated passes, his punting far excelled that of either...
Saturday's game showed that as yet Yale has not developed a man who can be depended on to kick field goals with any degree of accuracy. The line is undoubtedly inferior to the backfield, but the known weakness of the defence is rather offset by the brilliancy of the attack which combines so well the plunging power of the old fashioned game with the speed and versatility necessary in the more modern "open style" of game...