Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought the left halfback was carrying it around the left end, is no longer so successfully worked. "The background of the phantasmagoria deception" has become quite transparent. What the Harvard offense is going to be next fall the sporting writer does not know, but it is prophesied that the shift play will be the "primum mobile" of the attack...
...merely seen a Portuguese eat a piece of bacon. Now it is the astronomer's turn to be whipped. And some people even hope that jazz and the hip-hoorah of modern Pep will drown the roar of the sidereal universe. None of these, of course, considers that one shift of the celestial pole in a mere 25,000 years will make grass grow on the present north pole and put jelly fish in even the most modern of our office buildings...
...least one shift in the line and possibly one change in the backfield of the University eleven will be made before the Yale game Saturday owing to the injuries which Grew and Coburn received in the game with Brown...
...feature of the Colonel's play was a novel lock-step shift which netted fifty- two yards in one single drive down the field during the second period and culminated in Centre's first score on Covington's field goal. Late in the third quarter Coach Moran's men adopted the off-tackle attack against the right side of the Crimson line. When the teams changed positions at the start of the fourth period, Referee Quigley placed the ball less than a yard from the University's goal line. Here Roberts twice failed to penetrate the line as did Covington...
...third quarter the Princeton team seemed to change entirely. The speed, precision and skill of the Tigers in open field work first became a genuine menace. They had tried line plays and various shift formations without success and opened up their play in desperation. Princeton's strength in substitutes also became apparent. The terrific battering of the Chicago backs encountered an ever stiffening resistance. And after the Tiger had tied the score, a last-minute Chicago advance met disaster on the one-yard line when three desperate plunges were stopped dead...