Word: quarterbacks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...began the season this fall with the baseball team and joined the football squad late in the season. Since then he has been on the hospital list and has lost a great deal of time. He weighs only five pounds more than Captain Howe. The only other substitute quarterback is Strout, who weighs 138 pounds and, while a clever player has always been considered too light. Strout played on his freshman team and tried for the university team last fall...
...Dartmouth game showed beyond a doubt that the University team has been able to "come back" after the serious losses which it suffered in the Princeton game. Perhaps more than ever before the result of the game will depend upon generalship on the part of Yale's quarterback-captain and Harvard's quarterback and captain. Howe is a player of remarkable sagacity and skill, and Potter is a man who keeps a cool head and runs his team so as to get the maximum amount of power out of it. The test will be to see whether the latter...
...greatest weakness of the team has been that too much has depended upon Captain Howe. The team has never done anything worth while, except when he has been behind the line. This, of course, means that the substitute quarterback material is weak. Howe, though not physically a strong man, had been until the Princeton game, regarded as a superior general, a clever punter, and a valuable man in running back punts. Last Saturday his generalship was severely criticised and he muffed punts again and again. The timely development of Walter Camp, Jr., has relieved Howe from punting just...
...guard positions this fall who are short and stocky and a man at centre who is tall and apparently light in weight. The public has been accustomed to see big, rangy men at these positions in the Yale line. Then, too, in the backfield Captain Howe at quarterback weighs only 153 pounds. Spalding, the right halfback. weighs 165. Camp, the left halfback, is six feet tall, the tallest man seen in the Yale backfield since the days of Malcolm McBride. The weights vary from Howe at 153 to Paul at 193, who is the heaviest man on the team...
...greatest weakness of the team has been that too much has depended upon Captain Howe. The team has never done anything worth while, except when he has been behind the line. This, of course, means that the substitute quarterback material is weak. Howe, though not physically a strong man, had been until the Princeton game, regarded as a superior general, a clever punter, and a valuable man in running back punts. Last Saturday his generalship was severely criticised and he muffed punts again and again. The timely development of Walter Camp, Jr., has relieved Howe from punting just...