Word: team
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...November 1, C. C. Buell, of Hartford, Conn., was elected to captain the team for the rest of the season. Buell, who received his football training at Pomfret, played quarterback throughout the fall and in every game distinguished himself by his cool headwork...
...results. This form of play made the game a confused one to follow. And it was almost impossible for the stands to tell who was doing the work. Furthermore, regular linesmen were not then in vogue, and the spectators were left to guess as to whether the team with the ball had one, two or ten yards to go, or whether it was first, second or third down. In a word, to the spectator in the distant stand the game was a jumbled mass of men, and only the closest student of football knew what was going on. Hence...
...lone defeat of the season was administered by the strong Princeton freshmen who won by a score of 13 to 0. The Crimson team was dazzled by the speed and cleverness of the Tigers but nevertheless put up a good defensive fight and in the last quarter twice threatened the Princeton goal. Twice also they held the Orange and Black for downs within their five-yard line. Churchill, Buell, Owen, and H. W. Clark, the Crimson centre, were the bulwark of a defense that kept down what might have been a larger score...
...finest exhibition of the aggressiveness of the 1923 team came, however, in the annual struggle with Yale last Saturday, when the Crimson team, out-weighed 25 pounds to a man, fought through for a 10 to 7 victory. Owen, Churchill, and Buell were the individual stars of the game. The former gathered in a fumble in the last quarter for a 50-yard gain. In two more plunges he carried the ball across the line for the Freshmen's only touchdown...
...captains of the two elevens which clash in the Stadium today, William James Murray Occ. of Harvard and John Timothy Callahan '19 of Yale, both prepared at Phillips Andover Academy. It is interesting to note that Murray and Callahan played together on the same team in 1913, the Yale man at centre and the University leader at quarterback...