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...retiring were these men, that not until very recently have their discoveries been made public. Fifty planes were to approach Berlin from all directions, guiding aerial torpedoes which would continue to the city while the pilots returned to their own lines. Blowing up Berlin was undoubtedly the conception of a high mind at an inspired moment. Well may the rest of humanity wonder why such an idea never occurred to anybody else during the war; it is thus with all inventions. When once suggested, they look obvious. Often, to be sure, an inspiration comes to two separate men simultaneously...
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...