Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jerry Nason of the Globe: "Harvard by 14 to 10. It should be a particularly hard fought battle though, because of Yale's excellent line. The Harvard forward wall has improved greatly, especially the running linemen who should lead the Cantabs to a pair of touchdown via the ground route...
Yale's practices this week have been devoted chiefly to forward passing, because there they believe a weakness has in Crimson defensive armor. Seymour and the ground game may only be an occasional threat...
...Meanwhile," the assistant professor commented, "the Chinese feel that they are fighting what may prove to be the first phase of a world conflict between democracies and dictatorships, and they look forward with confidence to victory if they are not denied support from Great Britain and the United States...
Coach Ducky Pond is bringing another typical Yale underdog football team into the Stadium Saturday. The Elis have a good defensive line, a weak running attack, and a dangerous aerial offensive. On Saturday, that forward wall may become a ball of defensive fire capable of making Crimson ground advances painstaking, the running attack may function like a well-oiled machine, or the Blue passers may drop their deadly bombs right on their targets...
...Yardling forward line was well supported by the halfbacks, of whom Ollie Biddle and Albie Merck were outstanding. To these two goes most of the credit for checking Brown's final desperate drives...