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...teams. To be sure, the problem is squarely up to the quarterback. He must not only have the plays but also the brains to use them. Each game is a problem in itself. With a heavy team having great endurance he may count on their coming harder and faster straight through. If his attack is based largely on speed and deception, he must make his scoring bids before the backs have begun to slow up or the defence has solved the fakes...
...third period Davis scored after Exeter had carried the ball straight down the field for 50 yards without a stop. Welmer failed to kick the goal, and Harvard still led, 10 to 9. Then Captain Kempton of Exeter, guarded by perfect interference, caught a punt and ran 80 yards for a touchdown. From that point Exeter was the master, and scored once again on a forward pass from Davis to Braman...
Yale's downfall before Colgate was due chiefly to its failure to diagnose a few very effective trick-plays. Until the last period the Yale defense on straight plays was sufficiently strong but was outwitted to such an extent on a diverse attack that two touchdowns were made against it on plays starting nearly at the centre of the field...
Brown defeated Vermont 46 to 0 in a game which showed no brilliant playing. Vermont was decidedly inferior and the Brunonians were not called upon to exert themselves. Pollard, at halfback, Andrews, and Purdy were the stars. The game was won chiefly on straight football though a few successful lateral passes were executed...
Lead by Captain Mahan, who played with a brilliant versatility, the Harvard offense succeeded in showing some real football, especially in the third quarter, when the Crimson took the ball from Harvard's 18-yard line and carried it straight down the field across the Penn. State goal line. It was an 82-yard march made by short but sure advances, a flash of that plow-like attack that has been used so gloriously by past Harvard teams...