Word: fills
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This year the football season at Yale has been one of slow but steady development. Again the difficult proposition confronting the coaches has been to build up a strong line. With only Forbes, Biglow and Hockenberger left to fill line positions from last year, the prospects for a strong team were not very bright. In the backfield conditions were more favorable...
...poor interference the men played well together, producing a team which acted as a unit. The ends of both elevens showed great ability, and were particularly fast in getting down the field under punts. In Starr the University eleven seems to have an end who is well able to fill his position, for on Saturday he demonstrated his ability to handle the ball, get down the field in time, tackle with sureness, and what is perhaps more important, use his head in breaking up the play of a fast eleven. Both sets of linemen played exceptionally well, but Burr...
...scrimmage, which occurred on Thursday, the University eleven worked 13 out of 15 of these plays with the greatest success. Much time has also been spent in teaching the men how to prevent the successful use of these two plays by opponents. In the game today Captain Foster will fill the position of left halfback, and for this reason the secondary defense should be much stronger than it was in the Brown game a week ago. Besides Captain Foster in the back field, Lincoln, who has now completely recovered from the injury to his shin, will play at right half...
...improvement. Lincoln and Wendell made very long gains on line plays, and Macdonald and Osborne recovered the ball for the first eleven several times on long punts, thus carrying the ball into striking distance. Macdonald, who has been laid up with an injured knee for some time, seems to fill his position at end excellently and follows the ball particularly well. The features of the scrimmage were the long runs made by Lincoln and by Bird, who made the only touchdown for the second eleven by running the length of the field after recovering a fumbled punt...
...portion in the rear of Beacon street will be 100 feet wide. It will be made of excavations from the basin, hold in place by concrete masoury, retaining walls, faced with ashlar masonry on piles. The continuation of the Boston marginal conduit will be built in this fill...