Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with a placement kick or punt, and no doubt it will be built upon this year. Last season the short, sharp forward pass came into view in the latter games, and will unquestionably be developed this year. The plays calling for quick turns off tackle, operating from a masked thrust, will be improved, and there will be in the latter games one or two novel offensive formations. On defence it should be recalled that no eleven was able to punch its way over Princeton's goal-line by direct thrusts last season. Lessons taught by methods through which opponents...
...advocate a tremendous navy,--one large enough alone to repel any foe,--for we should be going to a most foolish expenditure, and of what value is a whole fleet when some new invention is suddenly thrust upon...
...seen in action was sluggish and often stupid and showed a surprising lack of football knowledge. The Yale line had strength which was largely wasted in straight heaves of the old-fashioned sort. Here again a lesson may be learned from Harvard. The Harvard line play is a thrust rather than a heave. On defence the lineman is intent on getting through as soon as possible instead of carrying his opponent back with him. This enables him to get into the elcar where he can see the play, and gives him a chance to cut down the interference...
...work of 150 rifles. Last summer at Plattsburg one of these guns fired no less than 480 shots in one minute, and at the end of this time the barrel was a dull, glowing red. To care for this emergency an extra barrel is provided, which may be thrust into position in a few seconds...
...Indian campaigns, the gun at that time consisting simply of a circular collection of barrels, turned by hand. The automatic received its first try-out in the Russo-Japanese War, and such terror did it inspire that the Japanese likened its fire to a continuous rod of iron thrust from the barrel. In the German trenches today there is one machine gun to every six men, while in the United States a whole company has but four guns...