Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...flying wedge was introduced at the Harvard-Yale game of that year, and, although it is now abolished, it remains one of the most striking plays ever devised. Old fashions of the game still tarried on, and the long hair supposedly necessary for all players is one of the most picturesque. In these years the major games evolved almost to present dimensions, and great circling stands rose around the fields...
After a week of hard scrimmages, with particular concentration on the fumbling displayed in the Worcester game, the Freshmen easily rolled up a 26 to 0 score against Groton. Neither team displayed any too great energy and there was still a tendency to fumble. Churchill was again the individual star, but in this game C. C. Buell and G. Owen ran him a close race for first honors...
...careless play of the earlier games was almost completely corrected, but in the last half the Freshmen were unable to stop the long Exeter passes, a fault which was still prominent in the game with Princeton two weeks later. Churchill and Owen again did excellent work in the back-field, each of them making a touchdown in the first quarter...
...next week the still improving eleven pushed 31 points over on the Maryland team, registering a touchdown in every playing period and injecting a field goal for good measure. As the Maryland team was the weakest they had met, the strength of their attack still remained a matter of doubt. But as to the ability of Kempton, as a field general, there could no longer be any question. He handled his eleven with consummate skill, taking advantage of every opportunity that was offered...
Sixteen of the thirty-six men now composing the University football squad will be lost to the gridiron by graduation, as eight members of the squad are Seniors and eight are out-of-course students. Yale will be hit still harder, as twenty-five of her thirty-seven football-squad men will graduate...