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...works too much for himself-and that individual work is not always brilliant. The interference is wretched, and few successful attempts are made at blocking off, while the centre is not what we expect or what we can have with the material at hand. The team does not lack snap or energy to any marked extent, but it is this great want of team work and a too great reliance on a few brilliant individual plays that is one chief fault. Above all, this tendency to shift men about-so deadly characteristic last year-is not a commendable one. Last...
...game began with the ball in Ninety-three's possession. They started off with a great deal of snap and by a quick succession of well-executed plays forced the ball down to the junior's five-yard line on short gains. Here they lost it, however, on four downs, and ninety-four was forced to kick, but they gained only about ten yards, as the seniors broke through and interfered with Brooks so that the ball went outside at the fifteen-yard line. Here ninety-three took it, and went right ahead again. A rapid succession of short gains...
Ninety-three won by superior team work, especially in their interference, and by their greater snap and precision. The juniors were slow in getting the ball into play, though they had some good tricks; their centre, which was supposed to be their strongest point, did not show up as well as was expected, and most of their gains were made between end and tackle...
...play was very uncertain, sometimes the men would work with a good deal of snap and then would show little or no life. The backs of the second eleven repeatedly made good gains through the centre of the first...
...football. The line was weak, the backs played and ran loosely, and fumbling of the ball was deplorably frequent. After the first five minutes the team was almost demoralized, and the work was left to a few men. The coach had to urge repeatedly the men to put some snap into the lining...