Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...practice remains for the Yale 1911 football squad before it leaves New Haven on Friday. Since Saturday the coaches have worked hard to put the men in the best possible shape for the Harvard game and it is expected that the squad will be able to use its whole strength against the Cambridge eleven. The policy of the coaches earlier in the season was to smash the players at each other almost every afternoon, but many serious injuries resulted and although this system hardened the players, the authorities are taking no more chances at this late date. Since Shevlin came...
...Yale attack is developed and built up upon the shift play developed in its infancy by Glenn Warner and improved by Minnesota. The shift is good for swing plays outside of tackle or around the end but weak for line plunging. The strength of the Yale shift is dependent upon the speed of the linemen in getting to the line of scrimmage and upon the variety of formations which can be used in shifting the line. The Yale backfield gets around the runner in good style and puts the defensive linemen out of play much better and surer than...
From the beginning Coach Cavanaugh laid out a plan of campaign that has been consistently followed. With the necessity of developing new material to replace the players who were out of the game with injuries, his steady development of the whole squad was at times delayed. Realizing the strength of the Dartmouth line and the comparative weakness of the backfield, the policy of the coaches has been to develop a defensive team. However, in the game last Saturday the backs showed that they had power, and with the variety of plays that have been developed, but not uncovered until Princeton...
...season games nothing but a few simple formations were used, the contests were easily won, and except for field-goals and fluke touchdowns by Williams and Amherst, Dartmouth has not been scored upon. At no time during the season was her goal-line endangered by real football, showing the strength of the offence. Dartmouth has scored 129 points to 17 by opponents...
...fighter; but if, at the outset of an important game, any player makes a mistake and the opposing team seems to "get the jump" for a moment, the student body seems to lose heart and to desert the team. Thereafter, the players must combat not only the strength of their adversaries, but the discouraging pessimism of the whole Harvard stands...