Word: criss-cross
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...coaches draw the moral in an accompanying lecture. This is the third novelty Hinkey has injected into the football studies of the members of the squad. The first was heaving forward passes by electric light, the second the importation of three or four Canadian players to exhibit quick dodging, criss-cross running and passing...
...Indians tackled hard, but their play lacked finish and decisiveness, and their generalship was poor at times. Their best play was a well-developed criss-cross aimed at the tackle, but they were unable to gain by this at all consistently...
Harvard's main weakness lay in their inability to tackle hard and effectively, and in their lack of a suitable defense for the Indians' forward pass and criss-cross, double-pass plays, which were worked repeatedly for long gains. Both teams suffered severely from penalties, and in one instance Harvard lost half the distance to the goal line, amounting to 30 yards, when Peirce was put out of the game by Umpire Edwards for charging into two Indians who were pulling Starr toward his own goal after the ball had been downed...
...punted, but recovered the ball in the next play on a fumbled forward pass. Cobb made an on-side kick, which was also recovered, and then kicked again to Starr, who ran from the 47 to the 30-yard line with good interference. Lockwood and Gilbert then tried a criss-cross pass which failed to work. On a fake punt, Lockwood gained 15 yards to Maine's 53-yard line, but it was Maine's ball on downs. Cobb tried an on-side kick which was blocked and downed by Peirce on Maine's 45-yard line as time...
Dartmouth played a decidedly tricky and interesting game of football, the plays running rapidly from line bucks, criss-cross runs, and end runs to forward passes, onside kicks, and fake kicks from placement. Harvard, on the other hand, relied mainly on straight football, practically the only variations being forward passes and onside kicks from formation. One noticeable feature of the game was the excellent way in which the members of the University team followed the ball. In the first half with four substitutes in the line-up Harvard completely outplayed Dartmouth, showing a very powerful offense and a defense which...