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This was evident in the Princeton game. The ends again played wonderfully; the line was a stone wall on the defence; but offensive drive was lacking. The forwards failed to open holes for the backfield, and Harvard lost. Of course the team was placed at a disadvantage by early injuries to Potter and Gardiner, and by the lack of a first-class punter, but even with these handicaps it would have won, had the offence had the power to make the last punch...
Potter and Gardner are both first string quarterbacks. Potter is very valuable for his ability at both kicking and passing, and seldom fumbles in the backfield. Gardner, though not as brilliant as Potter, selects his plays carefully and with excellent judgment...
...latter can stand the physical strain of the game after his injury, and whether the former can stand the mental strain, in spite of the persistent rumors of his poor nervous condition. weighs 165. Camp, the left halfback, is six feet tall, the tallest man seen in the Yale backfield since the days of Malcolm McBride. The weights vary from Howe at 153 to Paul at 193, who is the heaviest man on the team. The average weight of the rush line is 182 pounds and of the eleven 178 pounds...
...halfbacks, Reilly, the former end rush and Philbin, the brother of Yale's clever halfback of two years ago, and Anderson, a former "All Western" halfback from the University of Wisconsin, are the players who have good individual qualities but are not up to the standard of the 1910 backfield...
...backfield is in a most peculiar position this year, and not in recent years in Yale football has there been such uncertainty concerning...