Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...their work and right here is the basis of the other faults. The men seem to feel that it makes no difference how they play so long as they do not actually stand still; attention, and above all implicit obedience to the words of the coachers seem to be almost entirely lacking. The men refuse to play where they are told and there is a great deal of unnecessary explanation and parleying. The freshmen should learn as soon as possible that a coacher is not put in charge of a team for his own amusement...
...TRAFFORD, GEORGE A. STEWART, for Harvard. THOMAS LEE McCLUNG, WM. BENNET WRIGHT, JR., for Yale.Now with such an agreement an agreement and with two such men as Capt. Waters and Capt. Hinkey in power, there is almost no chance whatever of the game falling through. Both these captains want a game, not an argument...
...feature of the game was the fine interference of the Harvard backs. Brewer, Stevenson, Emmons, Fairchild, Waters, and Corbett were in almost every end play. Sometimes the runner was only blocked by two, but oftener there were three or four to clear the way for him. Brewer and Stevenson were perhaps, if any discrimination is to be made, the most effective. Still it was the combined work of them all that brought about such happy results...
...chief fault in the past. Mackie also did good work, several times spoiling the attempted kick of the Amherst fullback. The ends, Emmons and Stevenson, and the tackles, Beal and Newell, were like a wall to the Amherst backs. They guarded their ends so well as to make them almost impregnable...
...individual playing yesterday was, with few exceptions, good. The second eleven showed up unusually well. The ends and tackles played their positions finely, and almost always succeeded in breaking up the interference of the 'varsity backs. Stevenson guarded his position particularly well, while Parker made Mackie work more than usual, and was in consequence rewarded in the second half by a position on the 'varsity. Lovering tackled in fine style and ran well with the ball...