Word: hand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...noticeable, and it comes home with all the more forcibleness. When a 'varsity back got the ball the rush line of the B. A. A. had already broken through. As a result our interference often proved of no avail. The interference of the B. A. A., on the other hand, was effective, simply because they did get a quick start...
...enough. Jesting aside, it does not put a man in an amiable or teachable frame of mind to be thus checked in his work by an apparently unnecessary carelessness on the part of instructors. Certainly it is but fair to ask the English instructors to write a reasonably readable hand...
...varsity team leaves the Square today at three o'clock to go to New York for the Cornell game. All men who can possibly do so will be on hand to cheer...
This was probably the case yesterday, when everything was sacrificed to the coaching of the half-backs. Sears '89 and Lee '91 were out for the first time this year. Sears, particularly, took the backs in hand and drilled them in the practice of starting and of interference. The game dragged because of the necessary halts which had to be called to correct the prevailing faults. A team must first inculcate the principles of play before it can exercise them. Hence the practice such as yesterday is inevitable and simply a step in the general progress of the eleven...
...hard to estimate the real strength of Harvard's interference, and aggressive playing. For the purpose in hand it was certainly all that one conld wish. But Brown's tackling was strikingly deficient. She had no knowledge of how to break up mass plays or to force a way into the interference, consequently the Harvard backs did brilliant work. For this they deserve all the credit that is given them, but their performances should not be taken as a criterion of what is to happen in the Yale game. Neither should the students draw the conclusion that the eleven...