Word: jumping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...worst thing, however, is their high tackling. It is truly melancholy to see rusher after rusher jump for a player's neck, only to be warded off, dodged or carried along, and this too against light men-what will it be against Yale's big, heavy rushers ? Low tackling is always the best tackling, and it is a great compensation to short men in foot ball that they can tackle low more easily and effectively than tall men. Now our rushers are short, stocky men, and will play against large men ; and yet, with one or two exceptions, they deliberately...
...painfully high tacklers. Peabody sometimes runs the risk of being warned for tackling too low. Holden rushes splendidly, but should be more careful about going out ; a man can drill himself into deeping away from the line if he tries. Holden ought to be careful, too, not to jump into the air when tackled ; that simply makes it easier to be tackled low, and makes it harder to push men off. Littauer is so quick and active that it seems strange to see him spoil his play by high tackling. Homans is slow about throwing himself into...
...named Rubsamen who has entered Yale this fall, has a big record in the long jump...
...make enough to hold the ball after three downs; when if one player had tackled him around the hips and upset him, as one can do only by getting in the way of his legs, he could not make five feet. With one or two exceptions, our rushers all jump for the neck and shoulders.-the very worst thing they could do. It is well enough against men of their own weight, but heavier men will ward them off, dodge them, or carry them along, every time. Tackle a man low (not unfairly low, of course...
...Wednesday, October 22, at 4 P. M., and a University Handicap meeting on Saturday, October 25, at 2.30. The events in both meetings will be as follows: 100 yards dash, 1-4 mile run, 1-2 mile run. 1 mile run, throwing the hammer, putting the shot, running high jump, running broad jump, pole vault, 120 yards hurdle race...