Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...half-hour's line-up between the first and second teams in which most of the time was devoted to work on the forward pass and the onside kick. The second eleven retained possession of the ball all the time in order to give the first team experience in preventing the successful use of these new plays by opponents. Captain Foster ran through signals for a few minutes and was then replaced by Gilder. The first squad was given considerable practice in starting. Miller dislocated his shoulder in the same manner is in the West Point game--an injury which...
...team after gaining 23 yards on an onside kick which carried the ball to the 10-yard line. The work of the players on the first team was good at times, and they followed the ball extremely well. Warren broke through the line once or twice in time to prevent forward passes. Hall tried two drop kicks in the scrimmage, both of which failed, the first being blocked and the second going a few feet to the right of the goal posts...
...given to developing the forward pass and the onside kick, with the result that in the last scrimmage, which occurred on Thursday, the University eleven worked 13 out of 15 of these plays with the greatest success. Much time has also been spent in teaching the men how to prevent the successful use of these two plays by opponents. In the game today Captain Foster will fill the position of left halfback, and for this reason the secondary defense should be much stronger than it was in the Brown game a week ago. Besides Captain Foster in the back field...
...members are often ignorant of the actual qualifications of the men on whom they vote. The election of the five additional members is to be entirely in the hands of the undergraduates. At present the graduate Society, which often has little to go on expect the academic records, can prevent the election of a man considered suitable by the immediate members...
...rules forbidding a man to run with the ball or to hold it in his possession any length of time prevent all roughness, but there is none of the concentrated attack that marks association football, basket-ball or hockey. Dr. Sargent has as yet given the game no name...