Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After their regular tussles with Coach Fisher's first string teams, the Lowell team must have seemed light and disorganized to the second team. But for its first game of the season, the scrubs played surprisingly aggressive and able football...
Coach O'Donnell brought his first and second string men to the Middlebury game Saturday. Later he was reported as saying: "I wish I'd left the Holy Cross squad at home. The boys think Harvard is going to be easy. I'll try to convince them otherwise...
...motion. Team A would go in and carry the ball for a while,then B, then C, and finally A would start in again. Since there were no linesmen and since downs were not counted, there was no score for the day's work, but the first string players showed much improvement over their appearance Tuesday. The various backfield combinations went through their foes more smoothly and apperared to be working exceptionally well with the line...
Just before the close of the scrimmage, the first string men had the ball on the 50 yard line, and with Maher, Cordingley, and Robb in the backfield, they forced their way down the field to within one and a half yards of the scrub's goal, where the ball was lost on downs. It was at this point that the scrubs threw their opponents for a five yard loss, after conceding another down to the University in order to see if they could score...
Because of the small amount of scrimmaging and the fact that the scrubs carried the ball almost continually, yesterday afternoon's practice of the University squad proved rather dull to the spectators on the sidelines in the Stadium. Breaking up the forward pass attempts of the second string squad consumed most of the time of Coach Fisher...