Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...general lesson of the year is that the running attack is at last firmly grounded and developed, despite the gloomy prophecies of three years ago that touchdowns were now impossible between fairly matched teams. To be sure, the problem is squarely up to the quarterback. He must not only have the plays but also the brains to use them. Each game is a problem in itself. With a heavy team having great endurance he may count on their coming harder and faster straight through. If his attack is based largely on speed and deception, he must make his scoring bids...
...Princeton employed a useful combination of line thrusts and runs off tackle, but there was little deception and the mixture was not always a happy one. The best exemplification of the fast running alert attack shown in the East was furnished by Harvard and Colgate. The latter team, however, suffered from the lack of a quarterback who had mastered the art of playing the concertina with the defence...
...another extract Mr. Angell gives attention to War. "What is the problem of War?" he writes. "Why do nations give their first care to the preparedness for it? To defend themselves. But that means that someone believes in attack; otherwise, if no one believed in the effectiveness of successful attack, none of us would be threatened, and the whole problem would be solved...
...with Providence Tech, he led his team in. Last year he was prevented from running because of difficulty with the office. In the early part of the past season he did brilliant work, being the first man over the line for the University in the Cornell race. Unfortunately an attack of blood poisoning set in just before the Yale race which slowed him up considerably...
...training develops too far the pugnacious instincts, which should rather be lulled to rest. Again, look at Switzerland. No passion is made more unruly by being instructed and self-conscious; the reverse is true. A course of lessons in boxing adds nothing to the likelihood that a man will attack his neighbor on the street; though it may well make-him more ready to go to the aid of a neighbor in distress. It is forgotten by those who urge these criticisms that in military training the enemy is present chiefly in imagination, whereas the person in evidence...