Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first Weld Freshman crew rows a fairly low stroke but is well together. When the stroke is hit up there is a tendency to rush the slides. The crew is slow at starting, but improves as it settles down. Their order is: Stroke, Macomber (capt.); 7, Minturn; 6, Thanisch; 5, Adams; 4, Lindsley; 3, Chadwick; 2, Krumbhaar; bow, Fairchild; cox., Swan...
...guards out of the line and placing them, one behind the other, on either side of centre and about two yards back. The tackles go in next to centre and the ends into the tackle positions. The backs, in accordance with the rules, play five yards back of the rush line. Plays can then be run anywhere, and by any player except centre. This formation is very close and its success depends almost entirely upon absolutely concerted action. Pennsylvania thus gets more use out of her line men, especially the guards, on the offensive, than do any of the other...
...easily, using a swift back hand stroke with great effect. In the second set Laverack improved greatly, running nearly every game to deuce and earning most of his points. Marvin's play weakened a little here but he finally won after a long deuce game. Laverack started with a rush in the last set and soon had the games 4 to 1. He could not keep the pace, however, and after the game stood 5 to 4 allowed Marvin to win three games in succession and also the match...
...backs are heavy and experienced. Hale, centre rush last year, is almost a fixture at fullback. Sharpe alone of the halfbacks is playing a brilliant game. He is still weak, however...
...noticeable lack of control, both in shoving down the legs and in holding them on the recover, and a very marked weakness at the finish. The catch is strong, but the stroke is not held out powerfully to the end, and on the recover the men when tired rush their slides...