Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dartmouth had a hard fight on its hands to subdue a game team from Virginia Polytechnic Institute by 21 to 0. The southerners had a tight defense against forward passes, and the Big Green team found its aerial attack powerless. Straight drives through the line were used almost entirely in the Hanoverian offense, and a strong Virginia forward wall held this offense scoreless during the first and third periods...
Syracuse proved too strong for William and Mary. Twenty-nine first downs for the victors to one for the losers tells the story of the Orange superiority. The southerners vaunted aerial attack was throttled, only two passes out of ten being successful...
Inability to stop a fast, deceptive forward pass caused a Crimson eleven to go down to a 19 to 14 defeat before Holy Cross last Saturday. It was a revitalized, fighting team that took the field for the University on Saturday, however, and only the brilliant Purple passing attack combined with a costly error on the Holy Cross two-yard line prevented the University players from holding a well earned lead...
...Crusaders opened up their aerial attack late in the third period with Wise doing the passing and Healy and Shanahan on the receiving end. Most of the passes were from kick formation with the backs spreading and giving the passer who was back in the kicker's position a number of opportunities to complete the toss. The University secondary was utterly unable to cope with Wise's accurate shots, most of the passes that were grounded being dropped by Crusading receivers who seemed to have them already in their arms...
...twisting, slippery runs for ten yards, and a pass from French to Putnam added 20 more. Harvard was now on the Crusader's 27-yard line but could get no farther. Wise kicked to Harvard's 40-yard line where the Crimson opened up its first sustained attack. Four yards by Miller and an offside penalty on Holy Cross made it first down at midfield. Putnam took a short pass from French on the next play and picked his way through a broken field for 20 yards. A couple of line smashes followed and then Miller went through the right...