Word: line
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...team has some bad defects and is especially weak behind the line. The quarter-backs have yet to learn to give good signals and to bunch their men. The half-backs must wake up, start sooner and run faster. The full back is one of the weakest positions on the team and unless some good kicker appears on Norton's soon the sophomores will...
...rush line the ends are too slow and their tackling is faulty; in fact this latter remark might be applied to the whole team. The eleven does not tackle well. The line is very much crippled by the loss of their center and it looks as if this were going to be a difficult position to fill...
...line as a whole is slow to get through, and large holes are constantly made in it, especially through the center. There is a lack of sump in the work of the men, and they waste a good deal of energy sparring with each other. The ends tackle fairly well, but allow themselves to be blocked off. Newell and Weed are doing good work; Newell is rushing well and tackling in his old form. Weed tackles well, but attempts to cover too much ground...
Harvard's rushers did not play so well in this half. Once they allowed the opposing line to make a bad hole; in addition they were not quick and if it had not been for the tackling of the backs Dartmouth would probably have scored. The elevens were made up as follows...
...second game of the season is distinctly encouraging. The men play, a much quicker and more aggressive game than Harvard teams usually do so early in the season. Improvement is needed in tackling; only a few menders of the team tackle surely and effectively. The work of the rush line can also be made more effective; in the main the play of the rushers is steady, but occasionally they allow the opposing line to make a bad hole, and when this does occur they are a little slow in settling down to effective work again. There were some pretty exhibitions...