Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...general lesson of the year is that the running attack is at last firmly grounded and developed, despite the gloomy prophecies of three years ago that touchdowns were now impossible between fairly matched teams. To be sure, the problem is squarely up to the quarterback. He must not only have the plays but also the brains to use them. Each game is a problem in itself. With a heavy team having great endurance he may count on their coming harder and faster straight through. If his attack is based largely on speed and deception, he must make his scoring bids...
...phenomenal material it is unfortunate that the step was not taken sooner. Today's game, the final test, will decide whether or not the step was taken too late. Whatever the result, it is certain that the experience of the 1915 season has taught Yale a great lesson, and that in future her elevens may be expected to produce a safer, saner, and a far better brand of football...
...season, then, shows a record of one defeat and seven victories. This year, certainly a not more than average one in point of material, should thus far have taught the schedule framers an important lesson; that with the rising excellence of "small college" football and with the reappearance of merely average material for Crimson teams, it will in future be advisable to confine all the preliminary and the first of the mid-season dates to contests which will build up the team and not retard it. Special preparations for "minor" games, made necessary by the fact that the "minor" teams...
Careless, carefree students can not grasp in an instant the full significance of war. It took a year for the lesson to strike home to the University of Toronto. Now the students are exhibiting a firm but quiet patriotism of the highest order. War has become real to them and made their response to duty ready. If Harvard were in the same situation it would respond in the same...
Class unity seems to be the lesson of the new book. If there are any men who do not know everyone in the class, the volume, with its rows of faces; will be of great help in gaining acquaintance. Aside from its contents, such activity as the publication of the book itself involves (there were 120 men competing for the board) is an aid to class unity...