Word: austerlitz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This team of 1898 was confronted with the problem of avenging a series of defeats at the hands of Pennsylvania elevens, defeats largely the result of the irresistible Red and Blue "Guards Back" offensive. W. H. Lewis '95, considering Napoeon's strategy at the battle of Austerlitz applicable to defensive tactics on the football field, communicated with Head Coach Forbes his plan for stopping the line-crashing Penn guard. The attacks of the Austrian army and the Quaker eleven were analogous, both directing a powerful blow at the center of the opposing line. To substitute ends and tackles...
Defense Cue From Austerlitz...
Napoleon gets the credit, according to Lewis, for the solution of the problem. Faced by a similar wedge directed against his center, at the Battle of Austerlitz, the Little Corporal massed reserves behind the point of attack, and swept cavalry in from the sides, to catch the advancing wedge in a vise...
...destiny had begun to shoot like a comet. Epical dreams of a march to the Indies swirled within him. But he went no farther than Egypt, returned to Paris without his army. Everyone knows the rest of the story?the coup d' etat . . . imperial crown of golden laurel leaves . . .Austerlitz and "name your children after me" ... a treaty on a raft at Tilsit . . . the comet begins to droop . . . conqueror of a burning Moscow . . . Leipsig and puny Elba . . . Waterloo and hellish St. Helena...
...thought it was at the Battle of Austerlitz that Napoleon executed the coup I had in mind," said Lewis, speaking about it later. "At any rate, here is the account of the battle which I read and remembered: The French army was drawn up in a line awaiting the Austrian advance. There were divisions of infantry in the centre and cavalry on each flank. Behind the first line of battle were strong reserves. Napoleon sat on his horse in the rear, surrounded by his marshals, who were awaiting final orders. At length the Austrians charged the French centre...