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...team is light and not yet shaken together but quarter-back Wrenn kept the play fast and hard and in this the secret of the good score lay. The blocking off was fair, the worst tendency being for the blocker to get in the hole himself instead of making it wider...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot Ball. | 11/12/1891 | See Source »

...will be very difficult to fill the places held last year by Bull, Beecher, Pratt, Carter, and Woodruff. Of the provisional eleven named above, Robinson is a good tackler and blocker, but rather light for the rush line. He was substitute last year. Rhodes is a sure tackler and has great endurance, though he is not so quick as he should be. Brooks is a strong guard, blocking well and a slow and sure tackler. He played last year. Corbin, centre rush and captain, is a powerful man of long experience in foot ball. He is considered the best centre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Eleven. | 10/2/1888 | See Source »

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