Word: trick
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Pennsylvania's old guards back formation was useless. It is a play which requires a strong team to back it, and even then it has been proved ineffective against a team of equal strength. The few gains the Pennsylvania players were able to make were on clever trick plays and on a variation of Princeton's old revolving wedge. At one time only did they get the ball within Harvard's 25-yard line, when Wallace ran 30 yards, but then they could make no impression on Harvard's line. In the first half Barnard tried a goal from...
...pistol shot lunged forward at full length. It is expected that this new mode of practice, though somewhat tardy in its introduction, will be of service to the linemen when playing low on the defense. In the fifteen minutes of sharp signal practice which followed, a number of new trick plays were tried successfully. After signal practice the first eleven lined up for five minutes against the second team. No scoring was done as the first team kept on the defensive by kicking the ball every time it came into its possession, and effectually stopped all the plays...
...work of the secret practices, and, with the entire squad in good physical condition, the outlook is encouraging. The new signals, which were tried for the first time on Monday, went fairly well yesterday, but the players are expected to be entirely familiar with them before Saturday. All the trick plays are developing well and add materially to the first eleven's offense. The defense yesterday was again effective and now needs further strengthening in individual points alone...
...first eleven played two halves, each about twelve minutes long, against the second. The coaches are still hampered by the fumbling of the backs and a good deal of time was spent in attempts to remedy this weakness. The first eleven used many trick-plays, but the second still relied upon the guards-back formation. Owing to the stiffness of the men who played on Saturday, both the linemen and the backs were slow in starting with the ball. A certain lack of team play was indicated also, by the failure of the eleven to follow the ball with...
...Indians' defense was decidedly strong, owing to the vigorous and low tackling of all of the line-men. Except on one or two well-executed trick-plays, the Harvard backs were totally unable to gain around the ends, and had to depend upon line-plays. The most successful play for Carlisle was a mass formation outside of tackle, which completely overpowered the substitute tackles in the second half and made uninterrupted gains, especially through Swain...