Word: generalship
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...Superior generalship won Yale the great game at Springfield on Saturday. This tells the whole story of defeat in as accurate and concise a form as possible. The score was 6 to 0, but while it suggests the closeness of the struggle, it tells little about the comparative merits of the teams...
...sharp distinction to this was Harvard's lack of generalship in the second half. It is a serious matter for a team to lose its captain and it is the exception under such a circumstance when demoralization does not set in. All that Harvard can say is that she deplores the unfortunate occurrence and hopes that future elevens may be spared so great a discouragement...
...lawyer's clearness. Next best known, perhaps, is Mr. S. E. Winslow, captain of the famous '85 nine. No graduate can have more respect and confidence than a man who built a champion team out of a nine which had been ingloriously defeated the year before. With his generalship and experience in base ball to help guide our policy, we may be sure that our nine will not suffer. The crew will have for one of its representatives, Mr. H. W. Keyes, who is at present acting as coach, and is looked to by the college to teach Harvard...
...scrimmage, and it is upon this line that our game developed. Once started in this direction the development was rapid, and in a few years the system of snapping back and quarter-back passing had put the game in advance of the English in point of opportunity for generalship. The first quarter-back was a running half who stood quite a distance back, compared to the quarter back of today, and as the ball was snapped or kicked out seized it and made for the end. Owing to the lack on accuracy in the snapping he was gradually drawn...
...generalship of Yale teams, says the writer, has been a coaracteristic to admire in her success. She is seldom rattled, but always able to take advantage of the misplays of her opponents...