Word: snapping
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...practice yesterday the team showed greater snap than it has before displayed. Emmons was transferred from tackle to end where he did very well. Shea and Newell were both back at tackle. Gage played quarter back on the first eleven, while Burgess had his place on the second. Fearing was on the the field, dressed, but he will not play for several days...
Harvard's play in the game against Amherst on Saturday showed great improvement over the work which the eleven has done in any previous game this season. The whole team played with more snap, for one thing, while the individual work of each man showed some knowledge of how the game is to be played. It was plain that this improvement in the work of each player was due to the individual coaching which he has received during the past week. Cranston has been telling Bangs something about centre work's play, while Perry Trafford has given the guards many...
Amherst played a very fair all around game. His heavy centre men bettered their opponents in the first few minutes of play; but after that had their hands full. Captain Lewis who played at snap back, very frequently tried to form his men into a wedge on the ordinary down, but he did not gain much by it. For almost all his effective rushing, though his tackles gained some ground with the ball, he had to rely on half back Jackson, whose play all around was as skillful as any on the field. Amherst kicked the ball only once...
...meeting of the freshman class in Lower Massachusetts last evening was in every was a success. It was enthusiastic and at the same time orderly. The meeting went off with a good deal of snap, and the amount of good feeling shown for the elected officers was very creditable...
Exeter began the play from the center of the field with a great deal of snap, and steadily gained ground through the centre and around the left end. Whitehead and Thomas did most of the ground gaining with an occasional rush by Haradon...