Word: delander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annals of modern football strategy and ethics the name of a determined history professor is inscribed along with Camp of Yale, Moffatt of Princeton, Deland of Harvard, Bell of Pennsylvania...
Princeton has been noted for one salient characteristic in her play. From the earliest teams to the present it has originated but little in the matter of defensive or offensivetacties and has contributed no outstanding changes in the games such as the "Deland flying wedge" or as the Notre Dame rushing and passing game, but it has been extraordinarily proficient at developing ideas started by other teams but not carried out by them to perfection. Princeton has been the team to accept other ideas, perfect them, and put them on without a flew. Such things as the great "Purtie Back...
This play which was developed at Harvard was the product of the mind of Lauren F. Deland who put it into play with the Harvard team of 1892. Deland who was not a college graduate, but a leading advertising expert in the East, made it his avocation to invent new methods of carrying out football plays or war tactics or in getting up time saving devices in everyday life...
There was no rule to prevent "starting before the ball" on the offensive team but this rule did apply to the defense, and Deland thought that the wedge would be much more effective if it was in motion before the ball was kicked and recovered, and thus had a distinct start on the defending team who had to remain stationary until the ball was kicked...
Died. Lue Gim Gong, 70, Chinese-American fruit expert, credited with having originated two of the best-known varieties of grapefruit and oranges in the world; in Deland, Fla. Aged 12, he came to the U. S., was adopted by two wealthy Baptist women, was converted. He inherited from these women an orange grove in Florida, began his experiments. He worked in seclusion, held prayers in his private chapel. Others benefited by his researches and Gong died a poor man. Said Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor: "The orange growers of the United States should build a monument to his memory...