Word: playing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...score-board dates back to 1900, when Arthur Irwin, former scout of the New York American Baseball Club, and now with Rochester, wishing to lessen the difficulty which the spectators had in following the play with a fair idea of who was making the plays, conceived the plan. At that time forward passes were unheard of and mass plays with flying wedges were relied on for results. This form of play made the game a confused one to follow. And it was almost impossible for the stands to tell who was doing the work. Furthermore, regular linesmen were not then...
...work. At the suggestion of Mr. Irwin I devised a set of signals, made up from a combination of Army wig-wag and Stock Exchange signals, by which I can signal in an instant to the score-board the "downs," "yard line," "yards to go," "who's ball," "play by," "man hurt," "goal," "touchdown"--in short everything that is necessary to the complete understanding of the game. Since then I have constantly improved the system so that today it is accepted as a standard all over the country...
...course the receiver of these signals has an equally important, though less spectacular part to play. At the Stadium Mr. Frank E. Belliveau takes my signals. Mr. Belliveau interprets them and directs the half-dozen men who are stationed behind the score-board; they, in turn, set the various signs. Here everything is worked down to a science; if you wish to see hustling but efficient activity, spend a few minutes during a game behind the score-board. Each man has a certain thing to do, a certain part of the board to adjust. If he does the work...
...Bull Dog had the weight and it had the fight, but that was all. It had nothing but the battering ram style of play of the early nineties, which is helpless against the defense--of a modern team. Kempton, who had hitherto been regarded as Yale's best bet, showed little and neither Lay not Neville was a match for Garrity or Strubing...
...October 4, the University eleven won its second game by defeating Boston College 17-0. The game was much harder fought and better played than the Bates game. The interference, especially after kick-offs, was better than the week before when it was inclined to be ragged. There was less fumbling and better team play than had hitherto been shown. Heaphy of Boston played an excellent game at centre, while Murray, R. Horween, and Casey played brilliantly on the University side...