Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...playing days over when he graduated from the University in 1912, Mr. Fisher did not desert the game of football but the following fall came back to the Stadium as head line coach under the leadership of Head Coach P. D. Haughton, a position which he retained during the University's years of triumph from...
...consequent organization of the S. A. T. C. with its transformation of the University into a military camp, there was no organized first team football during 1917 and 1918, but in the fall of the following year, with the return of somewhat normal conditions, Coach Fisher was again called in, this time to assume supreme command of the Stadium forces...
...years of war had sadly disturbed the football system and Coach Fisher needed all his powers of organization to get the vaunted "Haughton machine" into action again. Fortunately a great many of Coach Haughton's most brilliant pupils, such as Mahan and Hardwick, were willing to aid, and with their enthusiastic help the new director soon built up his own organization closely modeled on that of his former chief. The first season under the new rule was most successful, for on successive Saturdays, Bates, Boston College, Colby, Brown, Virginia and Springfield were blanked with overwhelming scores, the powerful Princeton machine...
...Valparaiso against whom the Red-jerseys piled up 21 points without being scored upon, and a tussle with the picturesque Centre College eleven which came up from Kentucky to break into Eastern football for the first-time. Though fighting through four periods to another tie with the Tiger, Coach Fisher again had the pleasure of seeing the Elis defeated, this time by a score...
...Coach Fisher believes in the efficacy of a few elementary plays well mastered. The complicated shifts and trick formations of the West and South have never found a welcome in the Stadium. Due to the fact that the line material this fall is below the standard of former years, the Crimson this autumn has came to place increased reliance in the forward pass...