Word: around
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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More places were open for new candidates in the line, but Captain Black at guard formed a solid foundation around which to build up a strong rush-line, the best for several years...
...Harvard will go into the Yale game at the top of its season's physical condition. This will mean a lot, as Harvard's game has been built this year for speed to put on against a heavier rushline, and a game that is aimed to take the ball around the Yale wings and to throw it over the New Haven forwards rather than to drive through the line...
...first half of the game was featured by the all-round fast play of the visitors, who ended the half with a lead of two goals. Not once during the half had the University team really threatened their opponents' goal, the play always centering around their end of the field. More scores were prevented only by the excellent stops made by G. B. Emmons '17. In the second half, the University pushed the offence toward the Pennsylvania goal line, and for a time had things their own way. In the first minutes they scored twice, but then weakened again...
...tackled and are exceedingly difficult to down in the open. On a dry field the attack is at its best. On a wet turf it lacks the punch and brilliancy that marks its work on firm footing, due to the principle folowed in advancing the ball off tackle or around...
...goal. But in the second period, their offensive attack strengthened, and the University School's line was crossed four times. Horween and Church were each responsible for two of these scores. The latter scored his first touchdown by line plunging and the other on a 60-yard run around the end. Horween secured his scored by line plunges after straight marches down the field by the Freshman team. Hadley kicked three of the goals...