Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spirit which prompted them, out of training as they were, to line up against the 'varsity for two ten minute halves. Yet we cannot but feel that in Friday's game, especially toward the end, the game was interesting rather because it was amusing than because it was brilliant. To be sure, the 'varsity were making a steady gain of ground when time was called; yet there was much shouting and dallying and wasting of time. Such "horse play" as this where every graduate has his say, can produce nothing but confusion, and in the end it will defeat...
...played his position finely, and Newell and Manahan were particularly effective. Some of Newell's tackles were in a way phenomenal. The interference, however, was not steady or always effective. The backs did not keep well together and left big openings for the Dartmouth tacklers. Occasionally there was a brilliant exception to this, as in the case of Clarke's pretty run of 35 yards, and Gray's remarkable rush of considerably more than half the field. Dunlop, however, made his touchdown after a run of 25 yards, almost entirely by individual work...
...injured, though not seriously, and obliged to leave the field. A. Brewer and then Whittren took his place; the latter, after a long chase of Johnson made a pretty tackle and saved the 'varsity from being scored against. Brewer took Captain Waters' place in the second and made several brilliant runs from the middle of the field, while Waters did some energetic and effective coaching. All in all it was the most favorable day's practice the 'varsity has had this season...
Corbett had an off day. His running was, as a rule, as brilliant as ever, but he showed once or twice a tendency to run backwards when he saw that he was about to be tackled without gain. This is an old weakness of his, and one against which he has striven every year. Besides this, his interference was not so good as usual...
...running of the backs was brilliant, but they could never have done what they did without the aid of the fine interference. Waters made runs of 20, 30 and 45 yards; Corbett one of 50, and two of 60 each. It was not often that a back failed to make the distance in a single down. As a rule the halfbacks kept well with their blockers, but Corbett showed a strong tendency to break away and shift for himself. As it happened he was unusually successful in dodging his way out from the crowd, but he would never have been...