Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pennsylvania football squad has been drilled steadily on shift plays this week in preparation for tomorrow's game. In its past two games against Delaware State and Swarthmore, the Red and Blue players have given their supporters the right to look forward to and unexpectedly successful season. For several years, during the regimes of Bill Hollenback and Bob Folwell as mentors at Penn, there was either disappointment, or, as last year, friction and turmoil connected with the season. Penn powers-that-be, resolving to make a change for the better, have given the Red and Blue football a thorough house...
...present, the Penn team is halting and unworkmanlike in the operation of the "Heisman shift"; but it is expected the present week's practice will make a difference tomorrow against Lafayette. Since Heisman has been long recognized as the foremost exponent of the modern game, it is not surprising to read that forward passes played a major part in the Penn attack on Swarthmore...
...acknowledged to be a first class coach, and his record compares very favorably with Dobie's. At Georgia Tech, however, he was first given headline recognition by the press, due to the remarkable aggregations that yearly won the championship of the South. He is most famous for his "Reisman Shift", and it is around this play that he has built the system he is now introducing at Pennsylvania. In the first games of the season, the team has met with fair success, but, has shown many rough edges that will have to be smoothed off before Reisman really...
...drop-kick late in the scrimmage, Coach Fisher's eleven yesterday made up for the repulse they received at the hands of the black-jerseyed eleven the day before. Captain Hotween and Owen were out of the scrimmage yesterday and their places were taken by Hamilton and Rouillard. This shift was only designed to give the regulars a rest, and does not indicate any change in the backfield to oppose Valparaise, which will consist of Buell, Horween, Owen and Humphrey, as Johnson's hand has not shown, sufficient improvement to risk his playing...
...graduates, with only a modicum of experience and un-handicapped in most cases by family or dependents, so long was the teacher of more advanced standing held down to a state approaching penury. It was always simpler to replace with new material the teachers who could no longer make shift with the inadequate returns of the profession than it was to raise salaries...