Word: player
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...games which the team has played he has proved to be the strongest back in the squad. He is a versatile player combining great ability in line plunging with skill in kicking...
...third period brought the only score of the game. Successive rushes by Flower, with some assistance from the other backs and an eight yard skin tackle gain by Lynch, a former Yale player, placed the ball on the Technology two yard line...
...camps there is much interest in the proposed field day. At Ayer hundreds of men under such coaches as P. D. Haughton '99, Capt. C. A. Coolidge '17, and Capt. G. H. Hoban, a former All-American player from Dartmouth, are learning the rudiments of the game, and later in the season should make formidable aggregations. At Westfield and other camps in the middle and western part of the state preparation for the season is already well under way. From Westfield, the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery is to send a team against the informal University in Cambridge. In this regiment...
...informal University football team opened its season Saturday with a 27 to 0 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...
...captain is more than a good player. He is personally a man whom other men would willingly follow. That is a rare quality, and high praise. Perhaps the highest praise would be to say that he is a worthy successor to that captain who led Harvard through a season of brilliant victory, and through a no less honorable one of scanty defeat. Our teams have had throughout their history notable captains. George Percy is worthy of the tradition...