Word: ways
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...opportunity for giving instructions to the quarterback, there is a very evident departure from the intent of the rule. Frequently, too, instructions are given as in baseball by the position of a coach or player on the bench. Given two teams of equal strength and equal equipment in the way of plays, and the modern football game thus becomes a contest of brains between two football strategists, in which the players are like the pieces in a chess game...
...understood as in any degree attacking specific teams or coaches. If Harvard coaches instruct their men from the side-lines they are merely taking advantage of an opportunity which is open equally to all coaches. Every team that played on Soldiers Field this fall was instructed in the same way. The practice is one which is generally followed, but which ought to be abolished for the good of the sport...
...players are physically unfit or the proper medical attention is not given that serious accidents are most likely to happen. In drafting its rules the Committee has to consider not only the big institutions where football is played under the most favorable conditions and where every safeguard in the way of training and the use of substitutes is employed, but also the hundreds of smaller colleges and secondary schools where substitutes are few and trainers' bills must be kept...
...sent to the Locker Building and are now held by the Harvard Athletic Association. These have been listed and will be returned upon identification to the losers, who should immediately send a description of the lost article to the Graduate Treasurer, Cambridge. Although the Athletic Association is in no way responsible for lost articles, a corps of men was employed to pick up and return them to the Locker Building after the game...
...yards on each punt. Minot punted twenty times, including onside kicks, one or two of which were made by Frothingham , a total distance of 566 yards, about 29 yards perkick. Yale ran the punts back for 129 yards during the game, while Harvard gained only 97 yards in this way. Yale was penalized only twice for a total of 25 yards, while Harvard lost 96 yards on 9 penalties. Harvard made eight first downs, four in each half, and Yale only made its distance twice. Only one forward pass, from Howe to Savage, was successful; Yale failed twice. Once Yale...