Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...whole the team played fairly well together, the work of the backs being quite systematic in interference. They must learn to put their man out of the game entirely, and not to trust to a push to do it. Moreover the backs do not take all the chances for holes, several times going directly into the scrimmage when a hole was in plain sight. In defensive work the team is fairly strong in some particulars, especially in stopping push plays. But the line is woefully weak in holding on a kick,- Brewer being stopped a number of times...
...Much Gain for Either Side.Yale now started off to save the game, with the desperation for which the New Haven teams have always been noted. But the push-play which was tried against Newell netted only 3 yards, and L. Bliss did not find the hole through Upton and Lake that he expected, so the ball was once more passed to Butterworth for a kick...
Yale almost scores.A push-play gave Yale 5 yards, but Emmons and Mackie spoiled the next two plays, and Butterworth tried a kick, which Mackie stopped. A Yale man got the ball, however, and on the second down L. Bliss made a fine run round Emmons for 40 yards aided by the best interference of the day. Two turtle-backs gave four yards, and then L. Bliss was again sent to the right for 8 yards more. With the ball but a single yard from the line the hearts of the Harvard supporters almost stood still. The suspense was terrible...
...socialist would abolish the despotism of capital and establish absolute control by the state. The anarchists would push the ideas of the socialists to their greatest logical conclusions. Having escaped from the despotism of capital, they say let us escape from the despotism of state control also. Their ideal would be unrestrained individualism...
...show the slightest ability to break through, and time and time again they would allow themselves to be dragged along three or four yards by the men whom they had tackled. Whenever the Athletic Association got the ball they would batter down the Harvard guards and tackles and push the ball steadily down the field, and if Harvard did stop them on four downs it was invariably by bothering the centre when the ball was put in play. The number of times that a B. A. A. man was thrown when he was tackled might be counted on the fingers...