Word: lines
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Harvard excelled in the backfield and her runners were faster and more slippery. So strong and connected were the line assaults of the Crimson, that Yale was compelled to man its line of forward at all times with seven players, thereby protecting its backfield area with only four...
...Yale defense showed its bull-dog characteristic when its goal-line was twice threatened. There was no question, however, where the offensive superiority lay. Harvard rushed the ball one hundred and ninety-five yards, while Yale gained only sixty-eight in this way. Harvard made sixteen first downs compared with five for Yale, but it was in the forward passing game that the eleven showed itself so vastly superior. The team started its passes in the first few plays and so successful were they, that sixteen were thrown during the game, of which nine were completed for a total gain...
Yale Played Seven in Line...
...Defensively the Harvard line was a rampart of concrete. Against this impregnable barrier, 27 battering ram assaults by Yale broke for a gain of only 59 yards, in which were only six first downs, and which carried Yale once to Harvard's 32-yard line and once to the Crimson's 35-yard line...
...players, substitutions, and other facts of interest. As fast as dispatches are received, the plays will be announced through a megaphone, while they are graphically portrayed on the blackboard. Blue chalk will be used for Yale plays, and red for the University, with the customary curved, dotted and broken lines to show kicks, line plunges, forward passes, etc. These will be drawn on a chart of the field. The man featuring in each play will be announced through the megaphone at the time, with a description of the play...