Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale and Harvard from their play against Princeton is comparatively easy. Neither team follows the ball as does the Princeton team. Neither Harvard nor Yale has as vicious or powerful a defence nor are they equal to Princeton in either department of the kicking game. The Harvard team on attack is the antithesis of the Yale team, the former having broken up their offence on the lines of the old style football. Harvard plays a line breaking game almost exclusively, in which Wendell, the star line-breaking back of the season figures prominently...
...entire Harvard team plays together as a unit on offence, while the weakness of the Harvard attack is its lack of versatility. From tackle to tackle it is strong, but is weak on the ends and in the open style of play...
...means little, for Princeton is first and last a fighting team and under the strain of a championship game is likely to do the unexpected. In the Harvard game Princeton showed itself perhaps the best defensive team in the East, and so far this season Yale has uncovered no attack sufficiently powerful to gain through such a defence. Princeton, as well, has been weak offensively, as was proved by its failure to make any headway against Harvard and Dartmouth. A weak offence against a strong defence means a kicking game, and, although Yale has been developing this style of play...
...game of the year from Middlesex, at Concord, yesterday afternoon by a score of 2 to 0. A marked improvement was evident both in the team play and individual work of the Freshmen, the forward line doing especially well. Captain Jennings and Chubb played a strong game on the attack and for the defence respectively. The goals were made by West and Cobb...
...Considering the high wind and slippery Condition of the field, the work of the University players was very satisfactory. The Andover forwards, who played such an aggressive game against the Freshmen last week were unable to get started, and their defence could not stop the hard attack of the University eleven...