Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Michigan relied on open play against Case as against, De pauw but it was a slashing, running attack rather than a variety of forward passes that piled up the one-sided score. Behind an interference which left the field strewn with Case tacklers on each play, Coach Yost's backs went through for long gains repeatedly. On one occasion it required but two plays to take the ball over the goal line, Catlett, a former second string man, beginning his season's work with two long dashes for the second touchdown. Catlett was the pivotal point in these successful forward...
...Wolverine backs made the majority of their gains on straight football, using a fake kick formation time after time to start a long skirting dash around the Case ends. The defense at the opening of the game was effective in rolling back the Case attack, but when the substitutes entered the Michigan line-up, Case made two brief, vain spurts with the aid of short forward passes...
...victory over Bucknell on Saturday, failing to display any brilliant open offensive work or consistent defensive play. Princeton attempted the forward pass twelve times before succeeding once. Law punted steadily for great distances, once making 70 yards on a kick. Bucknell sprung a surprise by playing a savage line attack instead of the radical open game which had been anticipated. Glick was the mainstay of Princeton's attack. He several times slipped through the line outside of tackle for good gains...
Brown played a brilliant game against Rhode Island Agricultural College, but mistakes, particularly fumbles, slowed up their attack. Twice Brown was held for downs within ten yards of their opponent's goal...
...being carried away by the spectators and reaching the ears of our adversaries. This is further strengthened by the strange truth that on each Saturday the undergraduate sees but little change in the team's style of playing, with but few new or startling plays in its method of attack. Secret practice is not conducted primarily to keep secret the team's development. It claims a far more worthy aim; that of permitting the coaches to get the undivided and undistracted attention of their charges, so that perfection in playing may be instilled more thoroughly and quickly, and with greater...