Word: forward
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...forward line, the University players are not as experienced, or, with the exception of Percy, as fast as the B. A. A. offense. Coach Winsor, on the other hand, has drilled his quartet to better team work than that of the B. A. A. seven, who depend too much on the individual brilliancy of Skilton, Huntington, and Osgood. Curtis, who is filling Baldwin's place at left centre, and Percy, should be able to uphold the centre of the line against Osgood and Hutchinson. Thacher and Rice are fast men and handle their sticks fairly well, but they...
...thus enabled to avoid being smothered. The same general principle applies in attack. With a quick-starting backfield that is coming in standing up, it is not necessary to rub your opponent in the dirt. A quick thrust to throw him out of the play and leave the offensive forward free to go through to the secondary is the sound method...
...only player eligible to be within the one-yard zone behind the line of scrimmage is frequently violated in the running from kick formation. Among the plays on which a ruling will be asked is whether a safety or a touchback should be called when a player intercepts a forward pass behind his own goal-line and under the impression that he has made an error, throws the ball across the line back into play. A ruling will also be asked as to whether a fair catch is complete when the receiver falls after catching the ball...
...Freshman squad A, numbering 35, was taken out to the Clay Pits in North Cambridge. After getting used to the ice, they were divided indiscriminately into four teams, with the forward lines carrying the puck down against the defense, Practice ended with short scrimmages between the four teams...
...provisionally joined should fail to come forward now; and others who waited until the Battalion became a reality should show their sense of responsibility. Said President Wilson in his message to Congress: "It would depend upon the patriotic feeling of the younger men of the country whether they responded to such a call for service or not." Harvard men have patriotic feeling; their showing at Plattsburg demonstrated that. They will respond...