Word: stagg
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...after yesterday, the grounds where the Yale team plays foot-ball will be closed to everybody including students, except men engaged in foot-ball practice. This is the first time that students have ever been barred from the use of the field. Signals will be tried and some of Stagg's tricks will be practiced - particularly that one by which he scored against Harvard last Saturday - W. C. Rhodes, captain of last year's Yale team, has arrived in New Haven and will, with the assistance of Corbin and others, direct Yale's practice until after the Princeton game...
...hard for the runners to get a start. The game was played part of the time in a pouring rain, and the few spectators consisted very largely of Yale men. Captain McClung, Heffelfinger and Hinckey of the Yale team saw the game, and their coaches, Corbin '89, Bull '89, Stagg '89, and several others were also on hand...
Trinity played a good game. She used the ordinary rushing half-back game very little, relying almost entirely on upon the "turtle-back" wedge which Stagg used so successfully, and upon an occasional kick. The wedge made its five yards through Harvard's centre with considerable frequency; but the general play of the centre men was a trifle stronger than it has been. At any rate they ought to have had enough experience in learning to stop the wedge...
Trinity has a very strong eleven, having beaten Amherst, Williams and Stagg's Christian Workers, and being beaten only 24 to 0 by the B. A. A. This means that they will give Harvard a hard fight, and make the game a very valuable one to the eleven...
Touch-downs, Trafford (3), Grey (2), Newell (1), Hallowell (1), Seerly (1). Goals from touchdowns, Trafford (7). Safety touch-down, Stagg's Eleven. Umpire, G. E. Burgess '93. Referee, J. H. Morse, L. S. Time, two 45 min. halves...