Word: backed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...successive and deplorable defeats, with not even a touchdown to brag about, Yale beat the confident Harvard team by a score of 6 to 3, upset all the betting calculations, and restored one of the universities' glories. Harvard can stand it, and everybody will be glad to have Yale back in the running...
...Polo Grounds the West Point men again triumphed over the Annapolis men. The Army has had the winning habit since 1913. Before that the Navy had had rather the better of the contests. . . . . . The midshipmen must manage, of course, to get back in their old football form as Yale has done, but Yale had suffered more from Harvard than Annapolis has yet suffered from West Point, and there is plenty of time. Congratulations to the Army and to the Yale men, but not a word of commiseration for Harvard and the Navy. There were two fair contests and the best...
...fact prevented a victory for the University, for toward the beginning of the second period Casey broke loose for a 71-yard run for a touchdown through the entire Yale team, but some Crimson player had been seen to trip a Yale man, and the play was called back, the University losing not only its touchdown but 15 yards besides. Casey was never able to break through again; the golden opportunity was lost...
...backfield combination of E. L. Casey '19, R. Horween '18 and T. C. Thacher '18 as field general, is the strongest the University has played this year. Thacher, as defensive back, has an able substitute in R. H. Bond '19; H. C. Flower '19's running is inferior only to that of Casey, whose place he is ready to fill; and H. W. Minot '17 is expected to punt up to his good standard should he be sent in for Horween...
...Minot did some good punting and Taylor practised passing the ball. Horween and Robinson also tried drop-kicking against the wind. The coaches did little but supervise the work, leaving the men to their initiative. The air was cold and bracing, and the entire squad walked the two miles back to the hotel...