Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have heard many fellows express their apprehension at the uncertain make-up of the rush-line, but most of them, I think, recognized that this was due as much to our bad luck in having some of our best men laid up as to anything. We have perfect confidence in our 'Varsity captain; but it is far better to "growl" a little in our anxiety than to sail on in calm and sublime confidence simply because we beat Wesleyan 110 to 0. This confidence is nothing but an other phase of "Harvard indifference," or whatever the proper name...
...first touchdown in three minutes. No goal. Score 4-0. Butler tackled the half-back, and when the other back tried to kick, Piper stops it and the ball is two feet from Wesleyan line. Manchester ran the ball out ten yards. Porter gets a touchdown on a bad pass. Goal; 1000. Harvard forces Manchester back, and Butler falls on the ball. Sears makes a run, and Holden gets a touchdown. No goal; 14-0. Cumnock catches the ball over line and makes a touchdown. Goal; 20-0. Holden runs, as does Harding, but goes out. Ball given to Wesleyan...
...team, the Yale News says: "The game was unsatisfactory to all Yale partisans. Great improvement must take place before any kind of a showing can be made against Harvard or Princeton. The great weakness of the team is in blocking and making holes in the rush line. There was bad fumbling and the ball was lost at important items. All the men back of the rush line played poorly. The whole play of the team is lifeless and slow...
...Yale News complains that the freshmen eleven is in very bad condition, and appeals to the members to begin strict training and regular practice...
...Amherst within two feet of Harvard's goal line. It looked for awhile as though Amherst would score, but on the fourth down the ball went to Harvard. Good rushes by Butler brought the ball well up in the centre of the field. Again Harvard lost ground by a bad pass to Nichols. Good work by the rush line enabled Sears to make a touchdown. Goal. Stearns, Amherst's half-back, rushed finely but was well tackled by Nichols. Amherst lost the ball which was passed to Wood who made a run of half the length of the field...