Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jones will iron out many of the wrinkles in the Eli football problems that have been brought to surface in the games with North Carolina and Georgia. Coach Woodruff, in his statement after the game to the Yale Daily News maintains also that Yale is weak against a strong forward passing game. This does not quite seem to follow from the Georgia game, since out of seventeen attempted passes the Georgians completed but six, while one was intercepted and the others failed...
Lack of proper interference and a poor defense against forward passing are Yale's weakest points in the opinion of the Georgia players, who were chagrined at having lost by but a single point but admitted that the whistle alone prevented Yale from scoring another touchdown. All were loud in their praise of Captain Lovejoy and the ends and backs but none of them thought that the Yale team was as formidable as they had expected it to be. One of the Southern backs was heard to remark after the game: "If we'd known how poor they were...
...Throughout the game Yale found great difficulty in stopping our forward passing attack. This is the weakest point and must be improved before Yale meets Dartmouth and the Army. The punting was consistently good but the kicks should be gotten off faster. Against a more experienced team than I have, several kicks would have been blocked. My ends and tackles almost succeeded in doing this on more than one occasion...
...business outlook continues uncertain and without general trend. Industrial news has been fairly good, on the basis of the heavier seasonal fall and winter activity rather than particular forward progress. Textiles are not yet out of the woods, however, and nowhere is any boom in sight. Cutting of gasoline prices, while temporarily painful to producers and refiners, is a constructive and necessary step in the long...
Yale chastened the North Carolina "Tar Heels" 27 to 0, rather clumsily except when forward-passing...