Word: runner
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...line and instead of meeting the attack as a determined team should do-and as the opposing eleven did-the line-men depended upon the secondary defense to stop the play, and allowed West Point to gain steadily and with comparative ease. In advancing the ball, the runner made but little effort to follow what interference there was, and until the latter part of the game, Harvard's gains around the ends seldom amounted to more than a yard or two each...
...Egan '05 played No. 6 on the intercollegiate team last spring. This summer he won the western championship from W. E. Egan '05 who was No. 4 on last year's team, and who was runner-up in the national championship...
...slowness with which the line-plays were run off was due partly to the new tackle-back formation which the coaches are trying to teach the team, but on the end runs, there was a similar lack of snap, and with the poor holding of the line the runner was often tackled with scarcely any gain...
...given the least indications of development beyond what might have been expected at the end of the first week. This sudden improvement, however, was not noticeable throughout the eleven but applied only to the backs and ends, whose playing showed much more life, aggressiveness, and willingness to help the runner along than at any time before...
...next play, however, Watson broke clear of the scrimmage and, passing around Harvard's right end ran down the clear field. It seemed impossible to prevent a touchdown, but on Harvard's thirty-five yard line, Daly, who was playing back, made a diving tackle and stopped the runner. Williams, finding Harvard's weak place, soon sent Gutterson around Percival's end. Again Daly was the only man to prevent a score. Gutterson avoided the tackle but was tripped, and several Harvard players caught him just before he reached the goal-line. Williams was unable to penetrate Harvard's line...