[Behind the Line by Ralph Henry Barbour]@TWC D-Link bookBehind the Line CHAPTER X 2/11
Many other changes were made, among them one which installed the newly discovered Browning at left guard vice Carey, removed to the bench. There was no use in attempting to disguise the fact that Woodby literally played all around the home team.
Her backs gained almost at will on end runs, and her punting was immeasurably superior.
Foster, the Erskine quarter-back, sent kick after kick high into the air, and twenty yards was his best performance.
On defense Woodby was almost equally strong, and had Erskine not outweighted her in the line some five pounds per man, would have forced her to kick every time.
As it was, the purple-clad backs made but small and infrequent gains through the line, and very shortly found that runs outside of tackle or end were her best cards, even though, as was several times the case, her runners were nailed back of her line for losses. Team play was as yet utterly lacking in the Erskine eleven, and though the men were as a rule individually brilliant or decidedly promising, Woodby had far the best of it there.
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