Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...backs were even slower than usual in starting; they hit the line too high and with little impetus, while their formation of interference was as poor as that of several weeks ago. This was much in evidence, although in this instance it was not so much the fault of the backs as a failure on the part of the line men to block off, when Parker was forced to run 55 yards alone. He broke through the line clearly and eluded the full-back, but was caught and tackled beautifully by Gerrish Newell. Aside from this run and Dibblee...
Throughout the game, the backs played with a commendable amount of snap, though there still seemed to be the old fault of either starting a little ahead of the signals and thus making a change necessary, or of starting slowly. The weakness of the Brown line unquestionably covered up a good many slow starts. Dibblee played his usual star game, and by following his interference more closely, covered much ground on end plays. Sullivan made many good gains until he was injured and forced to leave the game. Aside from his deplorable failures at goal kicking, and his fumble...
...last year's men coming out, it has improved very much of late, especially in team work. The great weakness of the team lies in the centre men, who are comparatively light in weight, but this is pretty well balanced by the quickness of their play. The chief fault of the team work is a tendency to give the play away by starting before the ball. As yet the eleven has been coached by no one but Captain Talbot, who works his men hard and keeps the team work steadily improving...
Cabot and Moulton were always in the game. They were down well on punts and followed the ball with great precision. There were one or two occasions, however, when they were greatly at fault in over-running their man. Cabot was used effectively as a ground-gainer, both the first and the last touchdowns being scored...
...backs by timely blocking off. He was virtually the instrument of Dibblee's long run of 50 yards for a touchdown. He ran the plays with a great deal of judgment and infused plenty of spirit into the men, by his energetic style of play. His most conspicuous fault was a tendency to be slow with the signals, but this was probably in some part, the fault of the backs, who seemed to be unfamiliar with the code. Sawin proved to be a good ground gainer. He did nothing in particular the first half, but was rather unfortunate several times...