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Georgia players, in commenting upon the playing of the Eli linesmen, declared that Bingham and Luman on the ends. Captain Lovejoy at center and Joss at tackle, played best against them, bearing out, the opinion that the Blue tackles and guards in general are weak, Luman and Lovejoy were especially praised, while Bingham was characterized by the Southerners as a good man but lacking in experience...
...poor defense against forward passing are Yale's weakest points in the opinion of the Georgia players, who were chagrined at having lost by but a single point but admitted that the whistle alone prevented Yale from scoring another touchdown. All were loud in their praise of Captain Lovejoy and the ends and backs but none of them thought that the Yale team was as formidable as they had expected it to be. One of the Southern backs was heard to remark after the game: "If we'd known how poor they were we could have scored four touchdowns...
...opinion the best players on the Yale team are Lovejoy, Pond and Luman, Bingham is also a first-class end but lacks the experience of Luman...
Joss and Root are now leading the race for the tackle positions, with Sturhahn and Richards looking like their most promising running mates at guard. Of these men Richards alone started the game against the southerners at the position he held today. Captain Lovejoy at center and Bingham and Luman on the flanks are the only men who can be reasonably sure of retaining their positions in the line...
...Captain Lovejoy of Yale duplicated Captain Greenough's feat in picking up a loose ball to score the first touchdown of the season for his team. Lovejoy's score was the first of four that the Blue team crashed over the Southerner's line, another coming in the first period, with the other two in the third and fourth quarters. The last two touchdowns were the most impressive, especially in view of the fact that the whole second team, made up mostly of 1927 players, took the field at the beginning of the second half...