Word: pass
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Princeton barely nosed out a 10 to 0 victory over Bucknell on Saturday, failing to display any brilliant open offensive work or consistent defensive play. Princeton attempted the forward pass twelve times before succeeding once. Law punted steadily for great distances, once making 70 yards on a kick. Bucknell sprung a surprise by playing a savage line attack instead of the radical open game which had been anticipated. Glick was the mainstay of Princeton's attack. He several times slipped through the line outside of tackle for good gains...
Yale's well-rounded defense made possible a victory over Virginia. Six times the southerners marched down the field to within scoring distance, but the Yale line was always able to tighten up and hold the opponents from passing the goal-posts. Virginia's strength lay in swinging runs which balked the Yale ends. The play was nearly even during the second and fourth periods, but during the first and third periods Yale scored three touchdowns, one on a forward pass...
Coaches for a number of years have been sparing in their use of the forward pass, labelling it dangerous after a few experiments. The great barrier to its success has been lack of serious practice on the part of the men making the play. Men spend hour after hour in practicing drop and place kicking and punting and in other ways perfecting themselves in specialties. If any coach doubts that the forward pass can be thrown with deadly accuracy and received with perfect surety he would do well to watch the work of such teams as Tufts, which have brought...
...this connection and as evidence of the thoroughness of the methods Coach Frank Hinkey has installed at Yale Field attention is called to his coaching of the Yale candidates in the forward pass as detailed in another column. Drilling does not end with the afternoon field work, but is renewed in darkness, where novelty adds interest as well as accuracy in the play. (Boston Evening Transcript...
...students in Harvard College, except those who entered before 1910, must pass by the end of their second year, a special oral examination to test their power of translating either French or German...