Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There", said the authority on the Spanish Empire, pointing toward what would eventually be a forward pass, "there you have a concrete exemplification of the Drang Nach Osten tendency". A polite murmur of assent ran over the professorial assemblage and the blanketed professorial knees quivered in jubilation over the crack. Then a bony forefinger protruded into space and long white curtains floated in the Stadium atmosphere. "Will the gentleman entering the lower Portal of Section 39 kindly remove his hat?" Thousands sat in awe and whispers of "Well played, ... good eye ... bravo" were heard here and there...
When on Commencement mooring the Sheriff of Middlesex Country comes slowly forward in front of the platform, pounds his aword three times up on the boards, and says "The assembly will now come to order," a distinct odor of the past pervades the impromptu behind Sever. For the words spoken now for many years by Sheriff Fahburn were spoken on the came occasion by his predecessors for more then a hundred years before his day. The calling to order of the "assembly" of black-gowned students, their families, and the customary "puellae" is one of the oldest of Harvard traditions...
Stalwart Eddy Decker, Yale's defensive fullback, will bear watching. An ever-present bulwark to be met by Harvard ball-carriers, a veritable basket to throw forward passes into, and a powerful place of interfering material on the offense. Decker has an indomitable grit and spirit that keeps his teammates plugging. Garvey and Hammersley, both skillful runners, fair punters, and game youngsters will ably fill the missing Caldwell's place...
...line, Scott and Fishwick are slow getting down under punts but are sturdy tacklers, and neither knows what dropping a forward pass means. Fishwiek will probably have in mind his last game in the Stadium when he took Tibby Bunnell's place as a greenhorn, and will have to show Harvard that Tad Jones has found the right position for the lanky ex-quarterback. Quarrier and Eddy are two husky tackles who should give Harvard's linemen a ride. In addition Eddy can boot the pigskin over the goal line every time on the kick-off. The writer does...
Plunging through the Yale second football team line for consistent gains, and completing several long forward passes, the University second team yesterday defeated the Blue on Soldiers Field...