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...team work. The men play together better, except in the case of the backs. When a Harvard back bucks the line he often has to do it alone. The Yale backs, on the other hand, are sure to help one another. This same difference was noticeable last year. Butterworth's phenomenal line breaking had that for its cause. Still the Harvard team has but just had its fullback picked. This more or less accounts for this year's failure in team work in that one respect...
Brewer and Wrightington will not quite offset Butterworth and Thorne. Brewer is better and quicker on round the end plays and sharper in finding holes than Butterworth. He is not, however, the line breaker that Butterworth is, and he falls far below him in kicking. Taken all in all, he can not be considered the equal of the man who was last year, America's best back...
...would be a possibility but for one fact. Yale is far superior in kicking. This means a great deal, for the game may be largely a kicking one. Brewer is by no means the poor punter he has been considered for the past month, but he cannot punt as Butterworth does. Moreover, there is nobody on the Harvard team who can be relied upon to kick a goal from the field, while Butterworth is the most skillful drop kicker on any team today. Even he, however, rarely does better than one goal in three, so that he is not likely...
...Harvard wins the toss and has a wind in her favor the first half, the chances will be with her beyond any doubt; for the wind is sure to die down at the close of the half as the sun gets low, and in a wind Brewer can outpunt Butterworth. It sounds a little unreasonable to place the chances of the game on this one circumstance, but the facts bear out such a judgment. The teams are so evenly matched in ordinary play that, leaving the punting out of consideration, they are likely not to score at all, or else...
...Butterworth '95, of Washington, fullback, prepared at Harrisburg, Pa. He played halfback on his freshman team, and has been fullback on the 'varsity for two years. Age 23, height 5 ft. 11 in., weight...