Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ninety-five eleven is still very weak, and unless heavier and stronger material is soon brought out nothing much can be expected of the team. Since the last call for candidates a few more men have come out, but the general need for larger men is still the same. It is planned to play some game each day. In the work yesterday against ninety-six, the playing was very ragged and irregular, good team work lacking at nearly all times. It is earnestly hoped that more candidates will soon come out in order that all available material may be tried...
...position of left guard is still unsettled. Warren, Laimbeer, and Acton were all tried there. Collamore, who was substitute left end last year, played yesterday for the first time. Baldwin, Connor, and Johnson played at tackle, Baldwin doing rather the best work...
...able to do so by the hardest kind of work. Now, the most promising candidates are: Backs, Hamlen, Scott, Morton and Ingalls; ends, Duff, Selfridge, Norton and Mann; tackles, Steedman, Booth, Kerne and Dibblee; guards, Paine and Thomas; centers, Fox and Roman. Besides these there are several good men still playing with the second 'varsity...
...Brewer, Stevenson, Emmons, Fairchild, Waters, and Corbett were in almost every end play. Sometimes the runner was only blocked by two, but oftener there were three or four to clear the way for him. Brewer and Stevenson were perhaps, if any discrimination is to be made, the most effective. Still it was the combined work of them all that brought about such happy results...
There was considerable improvement in the defensive work of the eleven. To be sure it was a weak line against which they had to buck, still they acted on the right principle of breaking through and tackling the runner before he reached the line of the down. In this way Amherst was repeatedly forced back with losses of from two to ten yards and obliged to kick. Fairchild broke through and tackled strongly; his failure to do this has been his chief fault in the past. Mackie also did good work, several times spoiling the attempted kick of the Amherst...