Word: snap
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Eight played a practice game with a scrub team chosen hastily from Eighty-Seven, and, although the latter were defeated, it cannot be said that the freshmen played a very brilliant game. Their rush-line, although composed of men who ought to play a very effective game, showed little snap in their work, and seemed to rely upon the half-backs to do the playing for the entire team, while the half-backs in turn passed poorly and often fumbled the ball...
...game of foot ball shins, of course, will suffer, and here and there a collarbone perchance will snap. But the very spirit of the Eton game lends itself less to hard kicking than do others. Skill more than brute force is required to run a ball down neatly from one end of the field to the other; the enemy has rather to be dexterously avoided than encountered and overthrown. Still it would be idle to pretend that foot ball is a delicate game, or one to be enjoyed without a fair share of hard blows. given and received. Given...
...second half or inning was not less interesting but less favorable to Harvard. The rushers did not tackle well and Princeton played with a snap and audacity exceeding that displayed in the first part of the match. The ball was started by Harvard and Harvard gained ground but soon lost the ball. Lamar, short and stocky, made one of his beautiful runs, dodging under the arms of the Harvard rusher attempting to tackle him about the shoulders. The ball was then for a time mostly in the air, Moffat and Willard having a kicking contest. Princeton sometimes tried to rush...
...down on the ball together. Finney and Hurd rushed finely while Phillips played a steady, reliable game throughout. Kimball made several pretty runs and dodged very well, while Peabody tackled splendidly. The halfbacks were, however, lamentably weak in kicking, apparently using very little head word. The centre rush should snap the ball back without wasting so much time, and the quarterback should take in the situation better and know more surely what is the correct thing to do with the ball. If the rush line had not talked so much to the referee and to their opponents their play would...
...Dartmouth team lacked snap and their backs did not kick well but relied too much on running. Otherwise their play was good and the game gave excellent practice to our men. After dining at the Dartmouth House the team went to White River Junction, and there took the train at 3.30 in the morning for Boston where they arrived Thursday morning, thus ending