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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interference. McKay played consistently and steadily, and deserves credit for breaking up many of Yale's plays. In addition to being impregnable on the defence, Fisher and Minot opened up large holes for the runner and several times broke through when the play was directed against them. Perkins, though not brilliant, played a dependable defensive game; his passes, however, were low on several occasions. P. D. Smith, who replaced him in the last period, materially strengthened the defence...
...Harvard have played twenty-nine championship matches, and of these Yale has won twenty-three and Harvard four. Since 1889, when Harvard withdrew from the Intercollegiate Association, Yale has won thirteen times and Harvard four. These figures are too divergent to be accounted for by any theory of accident, though 'Yale luck' has passed into a proverb. No; it is a superficial view of the case which fails to see that underlying this long succession of victories there are significant facts concerning the methods and coaching of these Yale players who could take thirteen out of seventeen victories...
...theory. But now by close familiarity with the personalities of these neighbors, he understands to what exact extent he can depend on each one; by constant practice with them, by daily experience of them, he has learned how far he can rely on them; he feels their presence, even though he cannot see them; he knows instinctively as he advances that they are by his side or backing him up at a definite spot; he goes into the play with a wholly new confidence; he is really three men in one, for their effort is directly interlocked with...
...first period, Smith, for Brown, made an unsuccessful attempt at a placement goal from the 30-yard line. Sprackling failed in one attempt at a field-goal, but was successful in a second, though it was not allowed because of illegal use of hands in the Brown line...
...signal drill against the substitutes, in which no tackling was allowed, the Freshman football team played two 12-minute periods against the second University team, during which neither side scored. The Freshmen could not gain on straight football, but recovered a number of kicks and fumbles, while the second, though much stronger on the offence, missed two attempted field-goals, and lost several opportunities for touchdowns through fumbling. Ohler, Jenckes, Gardiner and Dana played well...