Word: center
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...long gains. Advances by either side could be made only on very determined efforts by the whole team, in which the work of the runner was only a secondary element. The longest single gain was made by Mills, when he scored his touchdown on a 13-yard plunge through center. In the second half the team again showed its great fault of last year in losing the ball after carrying it almost to the goal line. In this instance, however, it scored a safety by breaking through and taking advantage of a fumbled pass behind the goal. The satisfactory results...
...strong defenses are encountered by the four-man attack, a kicking game, with the usual opportunities for spectacular runs in a broken field, will be resorted to. Another provision of the rules which tends toward the improvement of the sport is that permitting the first person to whom the center passes the ball to run with it, thus giving more encouragement to trick plays than has been the case for many years...
...reported for practice to field coach Chadwick and Captain Rafferty on September 16. At the opening of college the squad numbered forty men, and this number has since been increased to about seventy. The team suffered heavily by graduation, losing Holt, center, Goss, Glass and Hamlin, guards; Wilhelmi, end, Chadwick and Ward, halves, and Vander Poel, fullback, Rafferty and Shevlin, ends, Hogan and Kinney, tackles, Rockwell, quarter, Metcalf, right half and Bowman, fullback, of last year's team are in the same positions on the 1903 eleven. Morton, substitute center on the 1902 team is now at left guard...
Among the substitute backs now playing are Donahue '04, quarter; Lawrence '05, and Farmer '04S., fullbacks; Preston '04S., Soper '04 and McCoy, halfbacks. There are few good substitutes for the line positions; Flanders '04, however, who is trying for center or guard, is an aggressive and heady player, and Bissel is making a creditable showing as guard...
...first game of the year, played with speed and good judgment. Both he and Nichols picked their openings well, and interfered well for each other. At end, Clothier and Burgess played well; and Montgomery allowed no gains, but was slow in analyzing the opponents' play. Carrick at center showed as before an almost total lack of aggressiveness...