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Left Tackle Thayer

CHAPTER XV
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A fair analysis of the game would have shown that the two elevens, while playing somewhat different styles of football, had been very evenly matched in ability and condition, that both had been weak on defence and that neither had proved itself the possessor of an attack which could be depended on to gain consistently.

What both teams had shown was a do-or-die spirit which, while extremely commendable, would not have availed against a well-rounded eleven evenly developed as to attack and defence.

In other words, both Brimfield and Chambers had shown fine possibilities, but neither was yet by any means a remarkable team.
In some ways the visitors had outplayed Brimfield.

Chambers' attack, especially between the twenty-five-yard lines, had been far more varied and effective.

Her line, from tackle to tackle, had been stronger than her opponent's.


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