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...probability the remaining backfield will not be settled until immediately before the game. Leslie will probably start at fullback. Although somewhat handicapped by absence from any scrimmage since before the Brown game, he is invaluable on the secondary defense. His weight and ability to diagnose the opponents' play has often been instrumental in stopping rushes in the line which otherwise would have gone through...
...first game of the season Bates was defeated, 22 to 0. For such an early game the team-play was surprisingly good, but it was surpassed by the individual work of the Harvard backfield. In fact, toward the end of the game, long runs through broken fields came frequently. They were many fumbles but on the whole, the work was very encouraging...
...Williams game the University team had its first opportunity to show its strength. The line was impenetrable and the backfield displayed its ground-gaining ability by scoring 21 points. The following Saturday the University team defeated Amherst by the decisive score of 17 to 0, in a game characterized by long punts and noticeable absence of the new style of play. During the first five minutes of the game the University team's line was put on the defensive inside its 5-yard line for the first time this season. Three attempts by Amherst to gain were unavailing, and Corbett...
...Saturday Brown won easily, scoring 21 points. The relative merits of the two teams should not, however, be judged by this score, as Yale was overwhelmed less by Brown's superiority than by the fact that they took advantage of every blunder. The Yale ends were weak, and the backfield handled punts very poorly...
...injuries, but who are in shape for the Harvard game. At quarterback Yale is weak. Strout, Merritt and Corey are not capable of filling Howe's place, and the latter has returned to his old position, still playing as much as possible the position of a back. For the backfield Yale has Daly, Reilly, Kistler, Field, Freeman and Baker. The first four are all of the plunging type of player. Freeman inclines to that method but is also capable of skirting the ends. Baker is the one man of them all who is similar to Pendleton of Princeton or Sprackling...