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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With no injuries received in the game with Princeton, the 1921 squad started its final week of practice before the Yale Freshman game on Saturday with a stiff workout in the Stadium yesterday. In place of the usual light practice after a hard game, Coach Wallace gave his men a long drill on signals, and the team met the informal University eleven in a long period of light scrimmage in which no tackling was allowed...
...Coach Wallace expressed himself as pleased with the eleven's work against Princeton. "The team played a hard and strong game," he said, "especially in the early periods. In the second half the attack did not work so well and the Princeton team came back much stronger. The Yale 41 to 0 win over Andover shows us that we are up against a more powerful team this Saturday...
...Saturday with the game against the Naval Reserves at Newport. The disappointing outcome of the Campp Devens game coupled with the remarkable showing of the sailors in their latest games has made a week of stiff practice essential for the informals. The scrimmage with the Freshmen was used by Coach Rollins to point out the errors made against the soldiers...
...Faxon '20, spoke next and emphasized the eleven's need of whole-hearted backing. "There is very little that I can say except to repeat what Coach Wallace has just said to you. Although football is only a game, it is well worth playing hard. The individual members of the team have been playing hard, but much of their work has been nullified by a lack of teamwork. It has been the outstanding fault in all the games so far. A common bond of sympathy is what is needed to make the eleven men play as a unit. I think...
...safe to use this as proof that it will not. Only by alertness and power can the cubs be captured. The Freshmen, however, have both. They have had no University team to teach them how to tame the beast, yet they surely have the inherited instinct to do so. Coach Wallace, a veteran hunter and known of old in Princeton, has taught his pupils many ways to tame wild animals...