Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...team; the close, unerring following of the ball and the splendid spirit of the players individually and as a whole. Her wing defense and defense off tackle must improve between now and next Saturday, probably will. Her forward-passing game is not dangerous, and she launches a driving attack from her Minnesota shift formation better qualified for midfield gains than for gains inside her opponent's thirty-five-yard line. Perhaps she can work up her off-tackle slashes so that they will carry farther than they did against Princeton, but if she can repeatedly get Guernsey anywhere from Harvard...
Little need be said of Yale's attack, for it was not much in evidence, 36 rushes gaining only 112 yards, 62 of which were made between the middle of the field and the Yale goal line...
...beginning of the game, Shevlin's variation of the Minnesota shift seemed to bewilder Brown. Yale started off with an attack that gained 62 yards, taking the ball right up to Brown's goal-posts; but there it stopped, and the shift was abandoned until the last quarter, when it proved unavailing...
...play of Yale seemed to be that of eleven individuals who were trying to accomplish in their own way what could be done only by eleven men working as a unit. Only one lateral pass was completed, and that, strangely enough, lost five yards. Yale's new shifty attack, on the other hand, with good interference, shows promise, when the team grasps more fully the fundamental work of charging and tackling. Another week or two of this sort of drilling should produce a marked change in the power of Yale's team. The team's defensive play was the best...
...attendant evils sufficient to warrant the abolition of the system? There is undoubtedly much truth in the attack upon the athlete who is paid to come to college. But such cases are not the rule, and they are becoming fewer every year...