Word: quarterback
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale team is having a great deal of misfortune in regard to injuries to players. Von Holt, right tackle, broken his wrist on Wednesday, and the injury to quarterback Wilson's knee is more serious than was at first thought. He will be unable to play until the Norton Dame game, if then. Pumpelly, who wrenched an ankle Saturday, will be one of the game even longer than Wilson...
...quarterback position will be filled by Hughitt, a speedy player with more experience than anyone else on the team. In Lyons, the team may boast at least one good end. Splawn, from the Freshman team, is a dropkicker of more than usual accuracy, but his inexperience is militating against him in the competition for a permanent place in the backfield. Another sophomore star, Maulbetsch, has already cinched the fullback position...
...candidates for the quarterback position are, of course, headed by Logan. His generalship in handling his football machine was illustrated last year and his efficiency is undoubtedly on the increase. The list of possible substitutes for the position includes Swigert, Watson, Cottrell, Winsor, Donerty, and Willcox. From among these the coaches are counting on developing several second-string men of good calibre, but the filling of the position is decidedly a problem...
Higinbotham and Church, ends; Talbot and Driscoll, tackles; Oakes and Harbison, guards; Wylle, center; Wilson quarterback; Ainsworth and nowles, halfbacks; LeGore, fullback...
...kingly edicts way back in the fourteenth century and legislated against from time to time it has always survived. The scrub team is to my mind the most valuable in its development of the real eleven. They are the educators and they take their knocks uncomplainingly. Next is the quarterback, for if a team loses him it loses its sense of direction. It's his sand and pluck that tell-his patience to learn the play, to master the detail, even when hard, and after all that's what a man must do afterward to succeed in life. He must...