Word: offing
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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 men.
Candidates for the position of Assistant Basketball Manager will report at the H. A. A. this evening at 8, when details of the competition will be outlined.
Some interesting sidelights on the annual Harvard-Yale struggle in the Bowl at New Haven Saturday, can be gained by comparing the accounts of the struggle by New York and Boston "experts."
Parke Davis, New York Herald authority, says "Harvard's battle plan, resourceful and lively, was an assault by forward passes. This system of attack continued-intermittently during the first half. Four of these assaults by air succeeded, carrying the Crimson forward seventy-five yards.
"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...