Word: fault
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...playing at right guard. He charged vigorously and quickly, followed the ball well and did more than his share in stopping plays. He and J. Lawrence did the only effective offensive work, but J. Lawrence lost a great deal of ground by holding and playing off-side. This fault seems to have a strong hold on him and is spoiling his otherwise brilliant work. On the other side of the line Graydon was a weak spot, and Eaton, who took his place, was also of little use until Donald went in against him and put some life into his playing...
...sufficient force, and was very slow in interfering for the other runners. Stillman made two fairly good end runs and did some good defensive work; otherwise his playing was very poor. He fumbled several times, and lost a great deal of ground by running back on end plays. This fault also characterized Derby's running. Fincke caught punts well, but was slow in passing the ball to the runners. The offensive work of Barnard and Lee was weak. They were unable to open holes and got in the way of the backs. Their defensive work was much better, as they...
...Yale coaches are not satisfied with the recent development of the football squad. The one important fault is the slow starting of the backs on line plays. Brilliant individual work behind the line has resulted in large scores for Yale in every game this season, although the team work has been imperfect. The warm weather lately has been a great drawback to fast practice and it has made the team a little languid at times. This, however, seemed to disappear in the game with Bates on Wednesday in the rain, when for the first time the backs had sufficient life...
...principal fault brought out by the game was the failure of the backs, especially Kendall and Ellis, to interfere for each other. Several times Ellis was entirely out of the play. Kendall and Kernan have also acquired the habit of considering the play over as soon as they are tackled and of not fighting their way along until actually stopped. All of the backs fumbled repeatedly, but much of this was excusable. Sawin broke his nose early in the game and had to retire. His work was rather weak, but his running back of punts was very creditable...
Ayer, number 7, has had difficulty in learning to get a good hold on the water at the catch, but pulls a strong oar. He shares with the rest of the crew the fault of pulling out at the finish...