Word: deadlock
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...show its full strength, both offensively and defensively; a wonderful back-field, yet one which is powerless without support from the line, for there is neither a Wendell nor a Streit in the trio to gain a couple of yards when the two opposing lines are in a deadlock; a fair quarterback and fair kickers, and, lastly, a drop-kicker who full well realizes the responsibility of his work in the present style of game." L. WITHINGTON '11, in Boston Globe...
...ahead. When the punters were only fairly evenly matched, as between Harvard and Yale, the final score stood 0 to 0. Princeton, the 1911 championship team used the forward pass practically not at all, but depended upon an impregnable defence and quick following of the ball. To break the deadlock and thereby balance offensive with defensive play, the Committee has just drawn up a new set of rules which radically changes the game for spectator as well as player...
...large schools, is better qualified to nominate the class officers than is the Executive Committee of the Student Council, we very much doubt. The well-known men would necessarily be in the predicament of nominating themselves and the representatives of the larger schools would evidently encounter a deadlock at once. As a third suggestion, we do not believe any Freshman class has the unity to abide by a nominating committee such as now controls upper-class nominations...