Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After stalling and spluttering their way to a 7-all halftime deadlock, where not a single forward pass was attempted by either the Blue or the Red Yearlings, the margin of inches failed on a last-minute Yale conversion attempt to give the ball game to Henry Lamar and his men yesterday...
Church Shanghnessy, former Exeter forward who now plays for the Blue, scored two goals for the Yales yesterday afternoon and with his team defeated Poley Gnyda's Freshman soccer eleven, 3 to 1, on one of the remote fields around the Bowl. Joe Wogan scored the only goal for the Crimson as the Yardlings lost their second game of the year and their first in five games...
...ball over the scrimmage line for a first down, President Theodore Roosevelt stepped in to prohibit this maneuver as a menace to the young manhood of the nation. Since this palcolithic period of football, Coach Harlow has seen and brought about constant progress in the game. The forward pass without the added weight of a player was the greatest historical source of speed. Wit rather than weight has steadily become the emphasis. But since Harlow returned form the Navy to assume control over Harvard football fortunes a year and a half ago, he feels that he has witnessed what amounts...
Nobody knows which way the football is going to bounce, especially on an afternoon like today. Last year's game might have been different if Levi Jackson's one-handed grab of a wind-blown punt had failed, or if his now famous forward fumble had not hopped 11 yards into the grasping hands of Jack Roderick to keep Yale's scoring drive alive...
...first-line forward wall is generally considered a capable outfit, but reserves are scarce despite a full season of searching for the requisite talent. Ends John Setear and Dick Jenkins, who have between them caught 41 aerials, are capable although lacking in the pass-catching finesse of Jack Roderick, who like Captain Vince Moravec is out for the year. Captain Cotty Davison and Westi Hansen add up to 421 pounds of tackles, but the power of the line lies in John Prchlik and Vic Frank at guards and Bill Conway in the center spot...