Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tackle Hart of Princeton and Englehorn of Dartmouth are in a class by themselves, as towers of strength in the line. Hart's best games were those against Harvard and Yale, when he repeatedly did titanic work in holding two of the best backfields in the country. Englehorn, both at Princeton and in the Stadium, played All-American football without doubt. Like White, Englehorn follows the ball closely. It was due chiefly to him and his team-mate, Elcock, that the Dartmouth line did so splendidly at Princeton when in at least one department of the game the championship team...
...dissatisfying result than any other factor. The weakening of the offence by the ten yard rule and the prohibition of all pushing and pulling of the man with the ball has made it very hard for a team to make first down against an opponent its equal in strength when the play is in the middle of the field, and well-nigh impossible when close to the goal-line. For this reason most of the scoring between evenly matched teams during the fall has been made through field goals. When touchdowns have been scored they have resulted very often from...
...touchdown has really been eliminated from matches between teams of nearly equal strength, as appears to be the case, ought not something be done to make up for it? A great deal of deliberation should come first, but we believe that some change should be made to increase the chance of scoring. In general there are two ways by which this result can be accomplished. The first, by decreasing the distance to be gained, for first down, or increasing the number of downs, it would be possible to bring back the old-style rushing game and frequent scores by touchdown...
Following is an analysis of the strength of the Harvard and Yale football teams in Saturday's game. Fumbled punts called onside kicks in the chart are here considered as punts. H. Y. Punts, 14 19 Yards gained by punts, 482 551 Average length of punts in yards, 34 29 Yards gained by running back punts, 21 41 Rushes from scrimmage, 32 39 Yards gained by rushes from scrimmage, 106 146 Yards lost by rushes, 14 20 Average yards gained per rush, 2.8 3.2 First downs gained, 4 3 Yards penalized, 45 23 Onside kicks, 1 8 Yards gained...
Huntington at fullback is the best interferer on the squad, and adds greatly to the defensive strength of the team by his ability to diagnose plays and to back up the line in a brilliant manner. Huntington plays centre equally well and may possibly be used there during the game. Speed and activity characterize his whole play...