Word: line
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...during the last three and a half years. The value of machine guns and automatic rifles placed in salients, with the intervening stretches of the trench only very lightly manned, was pointed out and explained in detail. Such a system of defense although requiring fewer men in the first line trench is by far the most effective, Captain Amann asserted...
...University baseball team will play a Y. M. C. A. team composed of Naval Reservists from Commonwealth Pier at Soldiers' Field tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. The line-up has not yet been decided upon...
...victory over Dean Academy, in a game of straight and rather elementary football. The University team out-weighed and outplayed the preparatory school eleven, but the Dean player forced hard play throughout the game. Captain W. B. Snow '18, was easily the star of the University line, making holes again and again for the backs, and stopping many opposing rushes. He was ably seconded in this work by T. S. Woods '20, playing at left tackle. In the backfield, the hard-hitting line plunges of A. Horween '20 were most effective. He was used only in the first half...
...first half, straight line rushes, in which Horween bore the brunt of the playing, succeeded in carrying the ball over the Dean goal-line twice. The second touch-down was especially noteworthy, as it was gained by an 80 yard march down the field after a touchback on the kick-off. Both these touchdowns were scored by Horween...
...Dean showed a better defence. When Mullen of the Dean team dropped a punt, T. S. Woods '20 seized the ball and opened the way for the third score. Again on a fumble by Caldwell in midfield, Woods got the ball and was stopped only at the three yard line. Hallowell '20 then took the ball over for the fourth and last score...