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...trick (along with a good many others) up his sleeve, that Harvard wasn't at all prepared for. In the first half, you will remember that the scarlet-jerseyed horde was playing a balanced line--an equal number of men on each side of center. Even that tricky shift finally resolved itself into a balanced forward wall. The Harvard linemen were able to take care of themselves against this system. The shift held no terrors for them as long as Bates started its play from behind a balanced line...
...pits of their stomachs, that Morey had changed his attack and now was working with an unbalanced line--more men on one side of the center than on the other side. From the press box one could see the desperation of the Harvard team, as it tried to shift with the Bates line. The tackles would pull out to meet the shift and the guards would remain stolidly in their accustomed positions. There was just the hole that Mr. Wellman & Co. were looking for. A little push on the part of Stone, the gigantic Bates tackle and the backs were...
...hole, delivered an ultimatum: "Now you can't put any pole in at all. It would block our view." Equipped with blankets, food and a blazing fire nearby, she sat stolidly on the edge of the hole all afternoon, all night. Every eight hours a new shift of workmen arrived...
...addition to the mishap to Yankee's jib, she had been handicapped by a shift of wind that favored Rainbow. Her managing owner, Chandler Hovey, had just finished saying that he thought her showing amounted to a moral victory when he heard the news that Rainbow had been chosen. Said he: "It seems incredible." Aboard Vanderbilt's yacht Vara his guests did a war dance of delight...
...whole thesis behind this program is the very theory that man is but the pawn of the State. It is a usurpation of the primary liberties of man by government. It is a vast shift from the American concept of human rights, which even the government may not infringe, to those social philosophies where men are wholly subjective to the State. It is a vast casualty to liberty if it shall be continued...