Word: slow
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...work of the first eleven yesterday was slow and spiritless. Sawin, Ellis, Kendall and Hallowell were in the signal practice and all of them were in good form except Ellis, who was a little slow. Captain Daly was not on the field. The first eleven played a game of twenty-five minutes with the second team, and then the Freshman team was brought in for a fifteen minute line-up with the first...
...game. In the first half neither team scored, Brown losing the ball on Harvard's twenty yard line and Harvard fumbling it on Brown's five yard line. In the first part of the second half Harvard played a little faster and scored twice, but the men soon became slow and careless again, and Brown made a touchdown on a simple trick play...
Harvard went into the game with only five regular men and a badly matched backfield, but this did not excuse the poor showing. The five regular line men were very slow and listless and usually failed to get the jump on their opponents. The ends were surprisingly ineffective and had little speed. Behind the line several of the men played good individual games, but there was a total lack of co-operation and interference, especially on the line plays, where the runner usually had to shift for himself. The most serious single fault, and one which did most toward making...
...boxed and were not watchful enough in stopping trick plays. All of the responsibility for Brown's gains does not rest on the ends, however, as the secondary defense of the backs was poor. All of the men in the line, with the possible exception of J. Lawrence, were slow and awkward both in defense and offense. They played high, charged feebly and failed to follow the ball. Lawrence and Sargent were offside a great deal and lost many yards in consequence...
...games between the schools, Andover has now won 11, and Exeter 8. Though at times brilliant, as when Lasley after a double pass swept by Andover's end for thirty-five yards, the playing was uninteresting, and the continual delays from injuries made the progress of the game rather slow. Andover was outplayed in every respect and gained by straight football less than sixty yards in the whole game. Andover's line was slow in defense and could not stop the straight line bucking plays that Exeter adopted throughout the game. Exeter tried but three end plays and infrequently went...