Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale will be called upon to combat a forward pass attack said to be equal to that developed by any eleven in years. In addition to the aerial plays, the Iowa team possesses in Captain Gordon Locke a line plunger who should worry the Yale defence...
...Bowdoin eleven, with ten veterans, showed a real aerial attack against Amherst two weeks ago and won 28 to 7 although outclassed in end running and line plunging. On Saturday, however, Wesleyan swamped the Maine team 21 to 0 by crushing their defence...
...That much room for improvement was left, however, was shown by the contest with Georgia the following Saturday. The playing of the University eleven was of the loosest and most ragged variety, fumbles, five in all, occurring at crucial points in the conflict. Besides this, the aerial attack of Coach Fisher's players, which heretofore had managed to bring victory, was broken up by the defensive play of the Southerners and it was only the reliable toe of Pfaffman which brought to the University a 10-7 victory by means of a perfect drop kick...
...offense the westerners made but four first downs during the entire game, all of these coming in the second half. They failed to uncork any weird plays or aerial attack and on only two occasions, one due to a fumble and the other to a blocked kick, had possession of the ball beyond the centre of the field...
...remainder of the game the seconds tried vainly to push through the Exeter defense. As a last resort Coach Knox sent in J. S. Greenberg '22 for F. W. Pratt '23 at quarterback with orders to start an aggressive aerial offence at any cost. The first attempt, Greenberg to K. N. Hill '24, caught the schoolboy eleven unawares and netted 10 yards. On the next play, however, an Exeter player grabbed the expected forward on his own 35-yard line. The game ended with the ball on the Exeter 40-yard line...