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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...total seating capacity of the Stadium for today's game was about 42,600. This is an increase in capacity over last year of about 3,000. This additional room was obtained largely by increasing the number of wooden seats built around the top of the Stadium on the parapet...
...sting of this defeat was somewhat mitigated by the victory over Colgate, 23 to 0 the following Saturday. A new star, Walter Camp, Jr., appeared and played with a speed and dash that worked havoc in the Colgate team; time and again he went around end, while many of his punts were over 50 yards. The victory was the more encouraging because the team played without the services of Captain Howe, Ketcham or Philbin...
...also decided that five hard games in succession were too many for one team, and therefore the Carlisle game was arranged with the intention of playing substitutes in it. The players were informed of this at the beginning of the season. When the Carlisle game finally came around, injuries and scholarship prevented from playing eight of the men, whom the coaches had originally counted on last spring. Therefore, the team which played Carlisle, instead of being second string was practically third string. The Indians won. The "football family" consider such a defeat no disgrace, although there was considerable criticism concerning...
...excellent condition. All the men were out, except Wendell and Blackall, who were given a day's rest and will report for regular work this afternoon. Potter was out in football clothes and began the process of limbering up for his old place at quarterback by running several times around the track. It seems probable now that he will be in good condition for the game Saturday, as the doctors have pronounced his injury completely cured...
...running game I consider Harvard much stronger from tackle to tackle in rushing the ball, while Yale is correspondingly better in plays outside of tackle and around the ends. Camp, of Yale, should outkick any man Harvard has, while the Harvard backs can catch punts better than the Yale backfield men. This is Yale's greatest weakness, the handling of punts by the backfield, and unless remedied will prove fatal next Saturday as it did today, for the Harvard ends follow the ball well...