Word: slowness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...work of the University team was on the whole disappointing. The first half was slow, the Harvard team fumbled carelessly and in every case but one a Williams man recovered the ball. There was no life in the team and O'Flaherty at quarterback failed to get the men on their toes. He was slow in driving the team, lacking the decisiveness which he showed in the Bowdoin game. In the backfield Leslie and Rogers were rather slow in starting and failed to keep their feet. Frothingham though not as brilliant in the second half made several long gains outside...
...line very hard, and kept his feet well. His onside kicking was very good, all of the kicks being placed accurately. In the line the men failed to make holes for the backs, Williams stopping a number of line plays without gain. The whole line was a bit slow and no one followed the ball. The ends had the same difficulty, though their tackling was hard. Houston and L. D. Smith were fairly reliable on onside kicks...
...University football squad was given a long scrimmage in the Stadium yesterday afternoon. The work of the first squad was rather lifeless; the line was slow and the backs failed to pick their holes. Smith was not dressed and it has been decided that he cannot play in scrimmages until Monday. His injury is not serious, however. Corbott was on the field but took only a slight drill in kicking; Minot is fast rounding into shape and it is expected that he will be out soon...
...probably responsible for his using such a small number of plays. A more varied attack would undoubtedly have been more effective. He ran the team well, put life into the men, and in almost every case handled the ball cleanly. The back-field was rather erratic, at times too slow in starting, and at other times starting before the ball. They ran hard, though it was more through individual brilliancy then team work, that they made their gains. P. D. Smith, Corbett and Frothingham were the best ground gainers, Smith doing especially well...
...said that the men were caught off bases by a trick which many umpires would have called a balk, and which came as near as possible to being a balk in the estimation of the umpire who allowed it. The errors were due to the necessity of handling slow balls with almost impossible quickness, and are not to be classed with the errors of omission which go to make stupid playing...