Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rough but not illegal tactics and individual brilliancy. Captain Albright and Barrett are forward players whose speed and brilliant passing make a test for the best defensive system. The University can successfully cope with it by each man covering his opponent and by the forwards being on the alert to check back with the Brown attack...
...must be attained by him who would succed. The man who is collected, firm, ready for an opportunity or opening, watching, playing with his opponent, steady of hand, and above all, master of himself, will always hold the upper hand. Add to these qualities, speed at the proper instant, alert facility to take advantage of the opponents' weak spots, an intuitive sense, which comes with practice, of the time and manner of attack best suited to the individual--and you have the attributes of the accomplished foilsman...
Coach Wachter again said that he hoped that several football men would come out within the week for the basketball work is beneficial to football players inasmuch as it makes them more alert and active and improves their passing game...
Taking the game as a whole, the much heralded Harvard machine machine was outplayed by a Princeton team which was supposed to know less football, but which in reality was a far more alert aggregation, both offensively and defensively. Excerpts from the Yale News...
...fine play. Lourie, however, sistently fell back in kiek formation attempted to skirt the ends that he might display his forte-open field running. Time and again-hindered it must said by off-color passing from Callahan he was thrown for losses, especially Kane and Hubbard, who played exceedingly alert bruising games, but couldn't last the whole distance. Garrity's plunging was of a high order; behind Keek and Hooper, the former New back, aided by especially effective interference by Gilroy seemed to roll off center defense and inside the tack into a free field where Havemeyer, played...