Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that its strategy and ethics are those of war. New tricks are always desirable as surprises; the weaker man is the legitimate prey of the stronger. "One should always try to discover the weakest man in the opponent's line, as, for example, the man most recently injured, and attack him again and again. If a man, by repeated blows about the head and particularly on the jaw, has been visibly dazed, he is the man to attack at the next onset. If in the last encounter a player has been obviously lamed in leg or arm or shoulder...
President and Mrs. Eliot will sail for Europe from New York tomorrow, on a short visit to their daughter, Mrs. Charles Eliot, and her children, who are now in Switzerland. They expect to return to America early in the spring. President Eliot has recovered from his recent attack of the grippe and is in his usual good health...
Professor de Sumichrast will describe some of the events, including the attack on the castle and finally the outbreak of the French revolution, which led up to the abandonment of Versailles as a royal residence...
Harvard's attack was in the first half totally inadequate against a powerful rush line like Yale's and secured but one first down; and the failure of the few end plays tried was to be expected from the lack of effective interference as well as from the uncertainty of footing on a slippery field. In the second half, by the hardest kind of individual work and an occasional welding together into something like effective team play the eleven made short but consistent gains. The defense, excellent throughout except in kick formations, taxed Yale's superior offensive strength...
...unconquerable spirit with which he led his team. He gained Harvard's only first down in the first half practically unaided, and made the most and longest gains in the second. His brilliant tackles were the most spectacular plays of the game and time after time stopped Yale's attacks on all parts of the Harvard line. Mills, too, played a brilliant game. His tackling in the open and his work in the secondary defense left little to be desired. Sperry had few chances to carry the ball, but he was reliable in defense and his kicking was thoroughly creditable...