Word: fight
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University of Maine on October 3 and the defeat by Andover a week later showed an unexpected but very decided slump, and those characteristics which have been and are today the weak points of the team then made their first appearance. Chief among the defects is the lack of fight when the opponents are carrying the ball, which was very conspicuous, in last Saturday's game with Carlisle. The defense, it would seem, is as yet wholly inadequate to withstand a vigorous attack by strong opponents. On the offence, the work has been markedly irregular, and frequently in the course...
...able in a thirty minute line-up to score only once against a weak second team, and was in turn scored upon. The line charged too high and on the defense was almost powerless. Except in the last four or five minutes, there was an absence of fight so that long gains were impossible. The first twenty minutes of scrimmage practice was secret...
Yesterday's practice was still far short of what it should be, but on the whole was rather better than the secret work of Monday. The line showed more fight than it has exhibited for some time, although more than once the second got through for good gains. In a twenty five minute scrimmage, with many changes in both line-ups, the University eleven scored three touchdowns against the second...
...showing of the University eleven was extremely disappointing, and proved very clearly, what its recent work in practice has indicated; the absolute lack of fight. In the first half the Indians had the University team at their mercy, and ran the ball 70 yards without a single failure to make first down, the defense, throughout the game, was utterly powerless either to analyze or to stop Carlisle's advance with the ball. Double and delayed passes, quarterback runs, straight mass plays through tackle, varied by different wing shift formations, were all in turn, used most successfully in bending back...
...first secret practice of the University eleven yesterday was marked by no features of especial interest. The work was of average quality only, though it showed possibly a slight improvement upon that of Tuesday,--the men going into the scrimmage with somewhat more fight. Although the line played fairly hard, it was still very slow. A large number of substitutes were put in on both teams, and this fact, though partially accounted for by the inability of several of the first team men to play, shows also that the choice of men to fill several positions on the eleven...