Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Early in the season the back-field developed a strong, vigorous attack, but the line has never reached the effectiveness of the men behind it. A scarcity of experienced men who were at once heavy and fast made the problem of building up the line difficult from the first, and team-work made little progress under the many changes and experiments in the personnel of the team. For a long time there was evident in the line a woeful lack of aggressiveness, due largely to the lack of confidence of the men in themselves and to the same unfamiliarity with...
...scores of 17 to 0 and 24 to 0, respectively. In both these games the eleven showed speed and aggressiveness, and gave promise of satisfactory development. But the game with Maine on October 3 was barely won, by the score of 6 to 0, and the swift attack of the Maine eleven disclosed the weakness of the Harvard defense,--a weakness which became evident then and has been evident ever since. In the game with Amherst on October 10, the eleven, through a combination of ill-fortune and lack of sustained offensive power, was defeated. The play of the team...
...game with Dartmouth last Saturday showed that the team still lacks the cohesion necessary to resist a vigorous attack, and that the line is very weak on the offense. The line is made up of strong, energetic players, but there is little concentration, little effective and certain co-operation. The men charge too high, and very seldom charge in time; the Dartmouth team on Saturday was almost invariably in motion before the Harvard line had started to meet them. On the defense, the line is uncertain and does not mass at the point attacked; on the offense there...
...backs, capable of a very swift attack, have been held back of late by the slowness with which signals have been given. This slowness has delayed the play and made quick charging by the whole team impossible. The interference of the halfbacks and the fullback for one another is not very effective; Captain Marshall, however, has been more than usually valuable in helping the runner...
...individual players, Parkinson deserves especial praise for his excellent passing at centre and his interfering for the backs in the attack. Bowditch was very effective in the interference and was of great assistance generally. In carrying the ball in ordinary scrimmages all the backs were exceedingly successful, but their work in the open was poor. Schoellkopf's line-plunging deserves enthusiastic mention. Marshall's judgment in running the team, in spite of an injury to his head, which made handling of punts uncertain, was remarkably good...