Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University into condition. It is the second team that supplants the dummy and charging machine and gets little more sympathy and thanks than these implements of early season training. It is the second team that is second to the University only is ability at football, that almost leads it in Harvard loyalty and in its purpose of defeating Yale. And so on this last day of the second team's existence for 1913, the CRIMSON wishes to express the appreciation of the University for what the seconds have done. The men who parade will give their thanks in person...
...true Hardwick and Mahan, of Harvard were handicapped against Princeton by a wet, heavy ball with little resistance, but under the best of conditions it is probable that Guernsey and Knowles will outpunt them upon almost each exchange...
...Offensively in the Princeton games, Harvard displayed little excess of power over Yale, attributable to the Crimson's better backs, but defensively Yale Proved herself to be almost twice as strong as Harvard...
...University's renovated lineup. In the Princeton game, the team did not show up as well as was expected. There was punch lacking, and at times the defense was dangerously impotent. Something was lacking in the team as a whole, not in its individual members. Moreover, Bradlee showed himself almost indispensable by the phenomenal brilliancy of his offensive playing. This, together with Cowen's weakness at guard, Storer's superiority as a tackle rather than an end, Gilman's adaptability, and Hardwick's experience at the wing position, are the reasons for the shift. Today's contest, the first real...
After one experience with a world-beating Harvard team that was almost universally expected to swamp a supposedly weak Yale team in 1910, I want to offer just a word to the undergraduates, with the exception of the Seniors: to them, I am sure, 1910 taught a valuable lesson...