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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have this Kind of thing all the time, though we did get an ambulance shot up badly the other day on the road--fortunately no one hurt...
...complement of supermen, with an assortment of intricate plays well learned as additions to the basic structure; none the less the team that can tackle, block, work together as a machine, and hold the ball will make trouble for the best of them. So with Harvard; the best thing the Cambridge system does is to implant fundamentals; it is what Rush is trying to do with Princeton and Jones with Yale. You will see today at the Stadium, beyond a doubt, a band of coaches who are not thinking much at the present time about November, and what this...
...Rules Committee next points out that holding must be absolutely eliminated. Its effects are very great--"the slowest man in the world could make a 40-yard run in every play if the rest of his team would hold their opponents long enough." And it is a very easy thing to conceal. Coaching from the side lines, beating the ball by unfair use of a starting signal, talking to opponents (which is prohibited by rules only if abusive or insulting), and arguing with officials, are in the same class; they all have an important result on the outcome...
This amalgamated committee of fourteen members has spent the last ten years in making football a better game. They have made the old-time "rush-line scrapping" a thing of the past by the establishment of a neutral zone between the two forward lines; they have instituted reforms in the forward pass, and in the mass play...
...delicate to say it doesn't take a 'first-class crew' to beat Yale five lengths, but since Mr. Nickalls says it himself, let it go at that. Mr. Nickalls says 'Yale finished nearly three lengths in the rear.' Making the best of the naval disaster is one thing, but altering the facts in order to do so is not considered good from in America. The official times were: Cornell, 11.21 1-5; Princeton, 11.23 1-5; Yale, 11.43 1-5. Slow as the Yale crew was, it couldn't possibly take twenty seconds to row 'nearly three lengths,' even...