Word: gaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Most of the practice during the fall will be spent in developing accurate stick-work and in mastering the fundamental principles of the game. By reporting regularly for the autumn work men with no experience can develop enough skill to become members of the team later. Freshmen especially will gain from the joint practice with the University squad...
Under the present system, scouts from rival universities see the team in action but once a week. If they were permitted to watch the team daily, the greatest asset they would gain would be intimate knowledge of the personality of each player. The new plays evolved would be of less use to them than this intimate knowledge of each player. Thus a premium would be placed on scouting, a feature which should not be fostered...
...score more than the other fellow in every game. They started well against Foster Sanford's Rutgers Eleven, which was supposed to be able to show even more than last year's team in the power of the new attack devised by the old Yale coach. Rutgens' attack did gain ground--two first downs in succession on one occasion--but it could not prevail in the end against the dashing play by Princeton. It was conservatism in which everything was staked on one form of attack on one form of attack against the new football, and the latter...
Featuring the play of the afternoon was a spectacular forward pass from Mahan to Hardwick for a 20-yard gain and a long end run by Willcox, who scored Team B's only touchdown...
...that particular bit of punting has since been able to gain the whip hand over both Yale and Princeton through his pupils. He has done wonders with his running game, his drop kickers--notably Brickley--have achieved reputations, and there is a sound basis for everything he does; but it is curious that football men in general, and the coaches who face his team in particular, do not seem to realize that to beat Harvard and Haughton it is necessary to consider Harvard and Haughton's vital, and to my mind correct, principle--which is not drop kicking or placement...