Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University team rolled up such a score against Brown as it did in the Stadium on Saturday afternoon. When the last whistle blew, the scoreboard read 20 to 6 in favor of the home team. Then those who had seen the smoothness and power of the Harvard attack, the speed of the Harvard ends, and the bed-rock stability of the Harvard defence, even against the most open of open games, began to realize that at last the team had come into its own and possesses the makings of a championship eleven. In fact the playing Saturday...
...differing in that they lack that confidence to be derived from gruelling games with teams of equal weight and skill. In many ways Harvard may be Brown's equal, but we must admit that so far we have met no eleven sufficiently powerful to cope with either our attack or defence. Here surely is a weakness...
...playing of the team throughout the season has been thoroughly consistent, and although the largest score was made in the first game, the team has shown steady improvement. New Hampshire faced Brown with a crippled eleven, and was therefore unable to offer any effective resistence to the university attack. Brown in this game showed the aggressive spirit which has characterized her play to date...
...team from Massachusetts Agricultural College caused Brown more difficulty than any team up to that time, even outplaying Brown at some stages of the game. The varied attack of the home team, however, finally prevailed, with the result that Massachusetts left the field with 26 points against its record...
...critical contributions include the editorials, an article "A New Harvard Movement" by Mr. J. R. Sibley, and a number of dramatic criticisms. The editorials, if we exclude the fortnightly attack on the ringing of the seven o'clock bell, are unusually good, and the one entitled "An Opportunity" urges its suggestions so ably that one wishes that it might have been written in the days of the Advocate's past before some of the Harvard architecture had been called into its dreadful being. Mr. Sibley's paper outlines a method of spreading Harvard influence through the West without seeming unpleasantly...