Word: forward
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Michigan relied on open play against Case as against, De pauw but it was a slashing, running attack rather than a variety of forward passes that piled up the one-sided score. Behind an interference which left the field strewn with Case tacklers on each play, Coach Yost's backs went through for long gains repeatedly. On one occasion it required but two plays to take the ball over the goal line, Catlett, a former second string man, beginning his season's work with two long dashes for the second touchdown. Catlett was the pivotal point in these successful forward...
...time after time to start a long skirting dash around the Case ends. The defense at the opening of the game was effective in rolling back the Case attack, but when the substitutes entered the Michigan line-up, Case made two brief, vain spurts with the aid of short forward passes...
...year it is that the old-time conservatism of the leaders in Eastern football is to be abandoned and the season's important games will witness far more than ever before the open chance-taking style of play, in which wide-sweeping runs will be interspersed with forward, double and delayed passes. This does not mean that fundamentals of the leading schools of football will be thrown to the winds to be replaced by haphazard throwing about of the ball. On the contrary, the first games showed that the big elevens are better grounded at this period of the year...
Coaches for a number of years have been sparing in their use of the forward pass, labelling it dangerous after a few experiments. The great barrier to its success has been lack of serious practice on the part of the men making the play. Men spend hour after hour in practicing drop and place kicking and punting and in other ways perfecting themselves in specialties. If any coach doubts that the forward pass can be thrown with deadly accuracy and received with perfect surety he would do well to watch the work of such teams as Tufts, which have brought...
...this connection and as evidence of the thoroughness of the methods Coach Frank Hinkey has installed at Yale Field attention is called to his coaching of the Yale candidates in the forward pass as detailed in another column. Drilling does not end with the afternoon field work, but is renewed in darkness, where novelty adds interest as well as accuracy in the play. (Boston Evening Transcript...