Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Bradlee, the new quarterback was again watched with a great deal of interest. He ran the team very well indeed, but was weak when playing on the defence. He persisted in misjudging punts, though just before he was taken out he seemed to have come into his own, for the took a kick perfectly and ran it in some 25 yards. On the offence his it weakness was that he seemed a little prone to fumble and handled the ball with insecurity. However, he has improved much since the Maine game...
...scrimmage in trying to puncture Team A's defence, the ball was given to the latter eleven on its own one-yard line. The first play advanced the ball four yards, while the second saw the longest run of the season on Soldiers Field. Brickley found a weak spot in the middle of the opposing line, eluded the second team's backfield with the aid of good interference, and ran the intervening 95 yards for a touchdown. Mahan also got away for an unusually long gain, scoring on an intercepted forward pass from midfield...
...Maine Weak on Line Plays...
...hold fast that which is good." As for the counsel about "leading well," one hopes that the average Freshman will at least postpone his study of that difficult art until after the November hour examinations. For it would certainly annoy the Administrative Board if, in addition to petitions pleading weak eyes, devotion to family, and all of the other good old standbys, it had to consider the cases of any very large number of men who were trying to learn to loaf well-and had tailed...
...more systematic work of the second team, the first team's work suffered from the substitution of three new men in the very centre of the attack. Soucy, Weston and Cowen give bright promise of becoming valuable players after more experience, but the trio, at present, is too weak for the middle of the line, where the powerful drive of the first string men was missing yesterday...