Word: pass
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Wallace, the University centre is a much better defensive man than White, the man who fills in at the pivot position on the Yale team, but in all other phases of the game the two men are nearly of like ability. White, however, passes the ball end over end a method which requires unlimited practice in order to properly judge the angle at which the back will receive the ball, while Wallace uses the safer and more certain spiral pass...
...elevens are of such even power that the team favored by the wind will doubtless be the more successful in the kicking game. Yale bases her ability to score on a plan of offence which aims to outflank the opponent by making a drive at either wing, only to pass the ball laterally over the heads of the opposing men who have been drawn in in an attempt to stop the play. The pass goes toward the sideline to either of Yale's two backfield men who have gotten outside of the opponent's extreme defensive man. Plunges expected...
...University's system of offence is planned to split the opponent's primary defence an occasional forward pass are the other flank attack tending to keep the opponent's wing men and supporting lines from lending aid to the point assailed. Although a slower method of scoring it is less hazardous in that it does not involve so great a liability of fumbling...
Wallace, the University centre is a much better defensive man than White, the man who fills in at the pivot position on the Yale team, but in all other phases of the game the two men are nearly of like ability. White, however, passes the ball end over end a method which requires unlimited practice in order to properly judge the angle at which the back will receive the ball, while Wallace uses the safer and more certain spiral pass...
Yale defeated Princeton Saturday in a game replete with the thrills of the spectacular runs and passes of the Yale eleven throughout the first three periods and the almost superhuman fight of the Princeton attack in the last quarter. Throughout the first three periods the Yale backs ripped the Princeton line to shreds, smashing through the opponents' defence for consistent gains of considerable length, baffling the New Jersey team with the double and triple lateral passes which she has so successfully advanced this year, and out punting Princeton on every exchange of kicks. The work of the backfield approached perfection...