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...slow in developing, and even at best its work has always been more or less erratic. In the Princeton game, the team showed marked weakness in elementary football, such as following the ball, diversity of attack, and backing up the men who received the ball on each play, a fault which made possible White's run and touchdown...
After a very jolly evening at the Colonial last night, the audience came to a conclusion that the princess was not the only "slim" thing connected with the show. No fault could have been found with the house, for it was both plenteous and enthusiastic. What could have been the trouble...
...whirlwind work in getting down the field under punts and in catching Potter's passes. At tackle Gardiner and Hitchcock time and again caught the Brown runners from behind, while Fisher repeated his impregnable defence of the right guard position. At quarterback Potter ran the team without a fault and his punts easily outdistanced those of his opponent, Sprackling. As a field general there appeared little choice between the two. Both took many chances, Potter making four forward passes and Sprackling six, and each was successful in half the attempts. Both quarterbacks played a game of football far above...
There has been one serious fault with the Yale team this fall, and it is a fault which must be remedied before the hard West Point game on Saturday. That is fumbling. Time and again in the early games the backfield has fumbled at critical points, and the team has only saved itself through the weakness of its opponents...
...drill at the tackling dummies. Then signal practice and a brief scrimmage between the first and second teams was held. On the whole the work of the team was crude and a tendency toward sluggishness was evident. Hard practice during the rest of the week, however, should eradicate this fault...