Word: footing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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According to tradition this left the Freshmen in possession of the rope, and with it they promptly started a triumphal march up Main street. The second year men strove valiantly to gain it back, assaulting the yearlings on foot and even with a Ford, but were easily repulsed...
...school eleven by the score of 15 to 0. The work of P. Jenkins was the one shining feature of the game, but the backfield was noticeably lacking in team play. N. L. Gehrko, out with minor injuries, and T. M. Carnegie, shelved for the season with a broken foot, were budly missed...
...pity that such excellent material should be marred by a somewhat monotonous style. Also, one is almost provoked to laughter by the recurrence of the phrase "to this day." But anything can be forgiven the man who has the imagination and the ability to devise a new and fresh "foot-ball story...
...University line, on the left side, played a strapping, slashing game. Lockwood, the broken bone in his foot sufficiently mended to allow him to play practically the entire game, was the fastest man in the line, not excepting the ends. Always down under kicks among the very first and so much solid rock on the defense, his work was especially encouraging in view of Hubbard's injury. He showed his speed in catching Michie when the latter was loose for a touchdown in the third quarter...
...West Virginia will do much to prepare Yale for the big games with Harvard and Princeton. Even Saturday a marked improvement was shown in every department of the game. The blue-clad team played hard, fast football. The eleven that a little over a week ago was heavy of foot and slow of wit was changed into a hard-tackling, fast-running, and alert aggregation. There were few missed tackles, almost no fumbles, and the interference, ragged in the extreme against Boston College, showed a decided improvement. However, it is not that the development of the team has been advanced...