Word: line
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were kept at it consistently throughout the whole afternoon. A great deal of time was devoted to individual instruction after which Horween and Casey took the backs and ends and formed a skeleton team and the linemen were taken over by Coaches Dunne and Hubbard. A blackboard talk on line play followed for the linemen after which they worked out on the machines...
...pair received last year accrued largely to Trainer who had the good fortune to escape the injury jinx throughout the entire season. That is to say he escaped all injury which kept him out of games. In the Pennsylvania game he collided with Paul Scull on a certain line play which left its effect on his masticating apparatus but did not keep him from action for any length of time. Trainer later described the Penn captain as the hardest running back he had ever opposed, certainly a tribute to the man whom many rated as the outstanding player...
...firmly entrenched on the first team, a position from which no one has succeeded in ousting him to date. As time goes on the chances of any such event's happening seem to be getting slimmer and slimmer, and barring injury there are few who doubt that the opening line-up against Yale next month will include Ticknor at one guard and Trainer at the other. There is not another position on the whole team, with the exception of Captain Barrett's tackle berth and possibly the pivot position, that many would dare say the same...
...Talbot '32 and J. R. Truden '31 complete the list of the candidates for the coveted first team positions. They all have at least one more year of active football after the current campaign, and their careful training will be a matter of much attention for the line coaches, despite the seeming sufficiency of first team material...
...account of the linemen of the present Harvard squad would be complete without at least some mention of these same line coaches. They are Hubbard, the famous Harvard guard of several years back, and Dunne, former University of Michigan star. The wonderful job they did in putting together out of seemingly inexperienced material a line which impressed all of its opponents as being more powerful for sheer power that is than almost any other forward wall in the country cannot go by unmentioned. This year, their second together, should find their coaching system at its peak. With excellent material...