Word: trick
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...whole, the weak points of the team have been a lack of efficient, ground-gaining trick plays and formations and an undeveloped secondary defense. The team fights hard, however, and the snap which they have at times put into their play, when the odds seemed or were hopelessly against them, has been remarkable
With real dash and snap the university eleven tore through the Villa Nova team for a score of 44 to 0. End runs, steady line plunging and superiority in kicking left little need for the use of the forward pass or trick plays. On a field which was literally a sea of mud, Yale was played to a standstill by Washington and Jefferson on November 4, and was compelled to exert every effort to score two touchdowns in the second half, winning out by a score...
Grant, at centre, played by far the best game of any member of the University team. He was the first man down under punts and was the most reliable tackler. Furthermore, he was usually the first Harvard man to solve the Indians trick plays. The great fault of the University backs and ends was in being drawn in on end plays and passes. The team was excellently handled by Newhall, at quarterback, and except for one costly fumble, he covered his backfield position well. As a whole, the team played a good offensive game against the stubborn defense...
Last year Brown was defeated only by the score of 9 to 5, the visitors using shifting formations, fake kicks, and trick plays to great advantage. On October 19 of this year Maine was defeated by Brown, 40 to 0; a week later Pennsylvania won from them, 11 to 0; and last Saturday Brown beat Williams...
Saturday afternoon the football team of the Phillips Exeter Academy defeated the Freshmen on Soldiers Field, by the score of 6 to 0. Exeter's touchdown was the result of a familiar trick play. At the beginning of the second half Cutler kicked off to Lewis, who ran the ball back twenty yards and then returned the kick to the middle of the field, where Loftus recovered it and carried it over the line. Lewis kicked the goal. With the exception of the touchdown, the game was devoid of sensational features, and the onside kicks and forward passes proved unsuccessful...