Word: pollarding
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...first eleven is made up as follows; Comenford, l.e. Yale Wheeler, l.t. Harvard Black, l.g. Yale Peck, c. Pittsburg. Garrett, r.g. Rutgers O'Connor, r.t. Georgetown Miller, r.e. Pennsylvania Anderson, q. Colgate Gilroy, l.h.b. Georgetown Pollard, r.h.b. Brown Oliphant, f.b. West Point...
...Eastern football championship by scoring a decisive 28-to-0 victory against the Providence eleven in yesterday's game. With a remarkable season's record of victories, Brown entered the contest confident of a win, but in no department of the game did the losers equal the Colgate team. Pollard, whose wonderful work against the University and Yale stamped him as one of the greatest backs in the game, was ineffective on a slippery field, and at no time proved dangerous. The Colgate eleven displayed a bewildering assortment of trick plays and criss-cross formations, and each of its four...
With most of the University regulars in storage for the Yale game, our eleven lost to Brown on Saturday afternoon; but this absence of first-string material can by no means minimize an ably won victory, for, with the wonderful Pollard, the Brown players would have given the regulars a hard battle. Although defeated, the Harvard team did not give up fighting until the last whistle was blown. Thus, as the New York Times says, the victory "should not detract from Haughton's prowess, but redound to the greater glory of Ed. Robinson's football pupils...
...victors will undoubtedly be formidable opponents in the Stadium next Saturday. They possess a superb attack executed by a well coached and perfectly conditioned eleven. Their offence is centered about pollard, whose long runs featured the game...
...York Times praised him as follows: "Individually, Fritz Pollard, a lithe, dusky, six-foot half back, displayed the cleverest all-around backfield success attained on Yale Field this season. In end running, forward passing, in executing a bewildering criss-cross and delayed pass run, which was Brown's trump card, in running back punts, in side stepping and dodging Yale tackles in a broken field, Pollard gave a peerless performance. His head line exhibition brought the crowd of 25,000 spectators up with a roar in the opening minutes of the final period. Catching a punt hoisted aloft to midfield...