Word: lines
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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While the first string men were busy running through signals, team "B" staged a vigorous scrimmage against Dr. Bull's second eleven. In this game, team "B" demonstrated its general superiority by taking the ball down the field two times in succession to their opponents 10-yard line. However, the coaches decided not to let them score, and gave the ball to the second team in the middle of the field. Nevertheless, the scrubs were unable to gain through the line of their heavier opponents. Knapp at halfback and Sturm at fullback were the individual stars of team...
...have been the feature of every game in which he has played. They also have in Brown, one of the greatest ends of this or any other season, who will be quite as capable as the famous Higgins of crossing in to nab passes over the center of the line--one of Higgins' fortes. Besides this, they have a good kicking game and a steady generalship...
...played an advanced and scientific game, and has been as sound and conservative as any eleven in the East in its coaching systems. It has had from time to time some exceptional material, still has that exceptional material, and has in Hugo Bezdeck the natural successor to a long line of distinguished coaches...
...development by next Saturday, the Princeton eleven discarded the usual Monday lay-off and kept on the jump until darkness made further football impossible. In the long talk before the practice, Coach Roper told his men that their work in the West Virginia game was extremely ragged, and the line must continue to improve if they were to face Harvard with any degree of confidence. He then announced that there would be a one hour scrimmage every day until Thursday...
...result of his very evident dissatisfaction with his line, it seems possible that Roper will replace his regular ends, Raymond and Davis, by Legendre and Stinson. Coming as it does just before the big games, this change also is apt to prove either a disrupting feature or a "ten-strike...