Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Notably a second half club, the freshmen have improved considerably since the days of early season difficulties; they have gone undefeated in their last six games. Coach Guyda has commented on this rise in fortune with two explanations: the Yardings have finally learned to "beat the other team to the ball," and they have built up their passing game by "keeping the ball on the carpet...
Post-game goal post riots got their start back in those days when a man wasn't considered "at the game" unless he was seen, bleary eyed, hanging on to a piece of the uprights. A CRIMSON of 1928 stated, "One goalpost was traced to the railroad station, half of the other drove into a ditch after it had failed to gore four citizens and a ticket post, and a member of the second post was checked for Straus Hall by the unfailing courtesy that is the Taft Hotel...
Herman sends him deep from a right flanker position, shallow from his normal left half position, and just over the line of scrimmage from a motion right. The first of these plays looks something like Harvard's "transcontinental" play that scored against Brown last week-quarterback Stu Tisdale fades back and to the right, and then throws deep and across the field diagonally to Jackson. You will see this one most often when Yale is near the right sideline...
...finds it, Yale may well run through that one spot for at least half the game. The rest of the offense will consist of passes, unless Spears finds no holes. In that case, it will have to be "gingerbread" stuff around the ends--and passes...
...necessitated by an injury to Al Sawyer sends Alex Sergienko from left end to right. This means that George Emmons will go both ways at left end. McCabe will have the services of three varsity linemen, who will be used on defense only. The coach plans to spell about half the team on defense...