Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yale commenced its football season early in September with a large amount of good material with which to build up a team. There were abundant candidates for the backfield permitting many combinations to be tried out. H. W. Legore 1917 stood out most prominently then, and has proved himself a great player...
...Yale's line averages 179 pounds per man while the Freshmen average is 191 pounds. The Freshman line from tackle to tackle totals the enormous figure of 200 pounds per man, while Yale's line would ordinarily be a very heavy one, with an average of 187. In the backfield Yale has a two-pound advantage...
PRINCETON, N. J., Nov. 17, 1916.--The Yale football eleven which arrived here today seems to have recovered from its slump, and is in fine trim for the game with Princeton tomorrow. Legore, who was most affected, has recovered completely. Smith, Neville, and Jaques will probably start in the backfield...
...Yale team is as powerful in material as any eleven I have ever seen. From end to end it is a line of tremendous strength, one which should play a stonewall defence against any running attack. Its backfield is as good as any I have seen in years when it is going strong, as the backs I have witnessed--Legore, Carey, Bingham and Smith--are well set up, have a drive that carries them forward when tackled and are exceedingly difficult to down in the open. On a dry field the attack is at its best. On a wet turf...
...ends, Coolidge and Harte, did fine work on attack and defence. They were good, if not brilliant, on downfield work, and did acceptably, if not brilliantly, in protecting their wings. All things considered, the rival lines had pretty much of an even break of it. The Harvard backfield, aside from kicking, was superior to the Princeton backfield. Harvard did her share of ballchanging and thimble-rigging on attack, but found her most consistent gains arising from straightaway thrusts and sharp slants. Wheeler and Sweetser, of Harvard, played finely at the tackles, particularly in the second half, and Thacher and Horween...