Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feature of yesterday's scrimmage came late in the afternoon, when the scrubs, holding the University team at bay on the one and a half yard line, gave the regulars a five yard set back after they had been given an extra down to push the ball over, Coach Fisher's men succeeded in scoring but one touchdown and one field goal in the scrimmage, which lasted over an hour. The second team showed fight all afternoon, playing particularly well on the defensive...
...fact that the scrubs carried the ball almost continually, yesterday afternoon's practice of the University squad proved rather dull to the spectators on the sidelines in the Stadium. Breaking up the forward pass attempts of the second string squad consumed most of the time of Coach Fisher...
...plan, it is clear, closely parallels the system which has been no successful in football. Both Coach Haughton and Coach Fisher have always tried to secure for their teams expert individual advice from graduates who have themselves played the positions which they are coaching, and results seem to have justified the idea. There is no reason why the same idea should not be similarly successful in track; at least it deserves a fair trial...
...first quarter Coach Fisher began sending in substitutes, who were soon in the majority on the University team, and it is safe to say, judging from the exhibition of the first quarter, that the University score would have become much greater if the first team rush line had remained on the field during the entire game...
Today's game will not force a real test of the University's strength unless all predictions are upset. Coach Fisher will use only simple formations and if the opportunity occurs will send in various backfield combinations at least in order to test the development of as many members of the squad as possible. The visitors might however, turn the tables if their aerial attack ever got under way, and it looks as if the Crimson secondary defense would bear the brunt of today's work...