Word: slow
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Burgess, captain and right end, shows commendable spirit and plays the hard, dashing football that counts; but he is slow in getting down under kicks, and often allows the runner to get outside of his end. Thayer, right end, is a willing worker, but seems unable to destroy interference or to be of great effect on the offense...
Hutchinson, left end, is slow getting down under kicks, and allows plays to get outside of him. He goes into his opponents much too high, especially on the offense. Before his injury he was doing some consistently good kicking. Lane, left end, does very well in going through interference, but has not yet learned how to get clear of a pocket with sufficient speed. Harrison, left end, is very slow on his feet, and some very clever work is marred by his tendency to get pocketed...
...chance to show what he can do, but before he was injured he ran low and hard, and was effective in interference. He has not yet mastered the details of defensive play. Lindsay, right half, runs too high and fails to use his arms. He shows the same fatal slowness on the defensive. Parker, right half, is very slow in recovering fumbles and poor in interference. His running with the ball is at times good, but he fails to keep his feet when tackled
...practice yesterday showed that a slump has come in the work of the whole team. The formations were ragged, the signals were missed several times and there was a general lack of interest in the work. The linemen, especially, were slow and careless...
...afternoon. The first crew gave the second nearly four lengths start and at the finish had mad up a little over three lengths. Both crews rowed well. The chief difficulty in the first seems to be a lack of leg drive at the finish of the stroke and too slow body movement. In this last respect the second was better than the first; they got their weight on better, but their blade work was very ragged. The blade work of the first was good, except that at times the blades were high off the water at the catch...