Word: guard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Right Guard...
...Daley '27, regular guard on the Harvard football team, will undergo an operation for appendicitis this morning according to an announcement made in Cambridge yesterday afternoon. Dr. T. K. Richards '15, Harvard football physician for the last few years, will perform the operation...
Although he captained the first-year eleven of three seasons ago, he was injured so badly early in the season that he only played a few minutes against Yale. After Daley had won a regular guard berth in his Sophomore year, he banged his knee the first play of the Princeton game and was out of the line up for the rest of that season and most of the following year...
Whenever the boys got tired making touchdowns in this manner there was a very simple and deceptive variation which they used. There was the same formation at the start, and the right guard would go back in the same manner, but the quarter would give it to fire left halfback instead, who would take it for a run around right end, with the right guard preceding him on his flank to take out the opposing left...
...world suddenly woke to the fact that the unbeatable had been beaten. Every time the famous play started the Harvard ends and tackles charged around at the right moment and transferred the plunging, tearing human wedge into a keystone tightly jammed between two stanch supports Thus the line-crashing guard, Hare of Penn, was deprived of his powerful backing, and with the centre reenforced, he was easily stopped...