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...themselves, the housekeeper and some servants were in the long, tall building. The 100 or so young ladies were safely home for holidays. It was just 40 years since the Misses Ely had founded their school, to accommodate the daughters of once-fashionable Brooklyn, N. Y. With the shift of social tides, the Misses Ely-Elizabeth, Sara and Mary Boies (deceased)- had removed to Riverside Drive, Manhattan. Jews had encroached, apartment houses had towered. In 1906 the school had migrated to its final resting place on a green Connecticut hilltop. Now it lay in ashes, the ashes...
...used to, stupidly perhaps but quite happily, saying, "Well, now. What to think of that?" The only sad note in Huck's boyhood came at the end, when his mother died and he cried for her in a freight car, then ran off to sell his papers, to shift for himself, to grow...
...wealth of substitute material, particularly hard. There are several other players of ability both from last year's University and Freshman squads who have been unable to find a place in either of these line-ups and who will consequently be prevented from entering a game until some shift is made in the present combinations...
...that the power of the offense in 1908 consisted largely in the quarterback guessing a play. Then followed the period of a definite, scientifically planned offense. Finally the development of defense nullified these scientific methods of play selection. To put the offense again in the ascendancy, various coaches developed shift plays in order to compel the defense to change its alignment after being prepared to meet the offense which threatened before the shift took place...
...time went on the defense again learned to shift with the offensive team and not leave dangerous openings which the offense could capitalize. It then became necessary for the offense to evolve some other method of keeping the defense in doubt as to the real intent of the attack, and the huddle was a very natural answer to this problem. From the huddle a team can come out into any one of a multitude of formations the exact nature of which is concealed from the defense until almost the instant when the ball is put in play. This result could...