Word: forwarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both teams have taken the measures of Dartmouth rising to their supreme heights of power in overthrowing the Big Green. The Hanoverians said that the Harvard line played a far stronger game than the Blue forward wall, but the Eli backs were more successful in stopping the always dangerous Dartmouth passing attack. This weakness against an air attack has been fatal to Harvard all season; it was under cover of a barrage of passes that Holy Cross came from behind in the second half to lower the Crimson colors and later Brown showed the ease with which aerial thrusts might...
...other wing, Miaot and Fordyee played the tackles, while Charles Bradforl, a member of last year's eleven, and Donovan, class team coach, filled in at the coards, and Turner, last year's coater, was at the pivot position, Crawiord, Crosby, Baldwin and Mayo worked behind the forward line...
...ease with which Randall and Mishel ran the Crimson eleven ragged with their arching passes showed Coach Horween that the forward pass defense is still shaky, and for a large portion of the signal drill yesterday the teams worked on this department of the game. Facing each other, Teams A and B each made liberal use of the aerial thrusts. In view of Yale's reputed powerful barrage of passes, the coaches will probably pay considerable attention to perfecting a smooth and efficient aerial defense...
...Cornsweet galloped like Notre Dame's "Four Horsemen" of a few years ago. Four speedsters, shifty, hard-charging, with an uncanny knack of slipping out of the grasp of a tackler who apparently had them downed, theirs was the glory of the day. Slipping through gaps in the Crimson forward wall, they tore off big gains, and gave an exhibition of sustained and versatile power that stamps them as one of the greatest carrying combinations of the season...
...feature of the game was the play of Crooks, who substituted for Smith at outside left. A regular fullback, he stepped into the forward position and accounted for two of the three Harvard goals in the first half...