Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ability of Coach Hinkey, and highly compliments the University football team. The article says: "There is not much to say about the game. Harvard had a better team, a wonderful team--a beautiful working machine without a weak cog, so smoothly running and so powerful that Yale was almost helpless, forgetful even of the gently art of tackling...
...first play the Cadets brought the ball to the 10-yard line on a beautifully executed forward pass, Snow to Adams. Snow scored a touchdown on the next play but failed to kick the goal. Throughout the remainder of the period both teams used the forward pass almost entirely. Neither team, however, succeeding in making consistent gains...
...cast of the play is almost completed. The main character in the play, that of Godin, is taken by H. Scholle '18. The other parts are chosen, for the present as follows: Juglar, C. G. Paulding '18 Rebiffe, H. W. Salisbury '18 Hector, A. Shortt '17 Prosper, H. D. Jordan '18 Seraphin, T. Nelson '19 Leon, P. A. Bedard...
...every afternoon to be used as the human dummies and charging machines for perfecting the first team players, do so with no thought of thanks or reward. They do it that the University eleven may be the better trained to win. The honor of the University rests with them almost as much as with those who reap the glory...
Yale defeated Princeton Saturday in a game replete with the thrills of the spectacular runs and passes of the Yale eleven throughout the first three periods and the almost superhuman fight of the Princeton attack in the last quarter. Throughout the first three periods the Yale backs ripped the Princeton line to shreds, smashing through the opponents' defence for consistent gains of considerable length, baffling the New Jersey team with the double and triple lateral passes which she has so successfully advanced this year, and out punting Princeton on every exchange of kicks. The work of the backfield approached perfection...