Word: cleverisms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Quite a different variety of game is apparently being developed at Princeton, where, unlike most of the other larger universities, no direct return has been made to the line-plunging game of former years. This is largely due to the fact that the backs are all fast, clever dodgers, who show up to the greatest advantage in an open field. A shifting new-style variety of play can therefore be expected, abundant proof of which was given both in last Saturday's game and by the fact that all practice throughout the season will be held in secret...
...play was not hard and special attention was paid rather to perfecting the plays than to making gains. Both teams worked the forward pass effectively. After a time team B was substituted and play proceeded much as before, neither side scoring, although Freedley and Spang worked some clever passes...
Groton received the kick-off but lost the ball to Gilman on a bad fumble. The Freshmen soon advanced the ball well down the field when a clever forward pass, Mahan to Rollins, brought the second touchdown. Gilman failed to kick the goal...
...Hardwick, Logan, Spang, and Willetts. And of these men, the ones who were placed on what seemed to be the team of first choices were Captain Wendell, whose ability is already known as a line plunger and defensive back, Brickley, captain of last year's Freshman team and a clever drop-kicker as well as runner, Bradlee, of last year's Freshman, Gardner, twice quarterback on University teams, and H. Hardwick, halfback for the 1915 team who is being tried out for quarter by the coaches. These are men from whom a fast string of first team backs will undoubtedly...
...fiction of this number is interesting, Mr. M. Britten's "Poetastors", although clever, is not perfectly successful: it is a tale of the mismating of two half-baked literary souls, and the diction is rich with expressions like "she glimpsed his profile." Mr. Seldes' "The Other Crucified" is a too daring conception skillfully carried out except at the climax, where naturally it must be inadequate. "The Necklace of Death," by Mr. Skinner, is a good Indian yarn by one who knows the Indians; yet his properties get him into trouble in the middle of the narrative. The verse shows...