Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...done some very good line bucking, but is too often turned sideways into the play. His defensive work needs improving Skilton does not hit the line with sufficient force, and runs too high in interference, but seems to follow the man with the ball pretty well. His defense is better than it was earlier in the season...
...start and at the finish had mad up a little over three lengths. Both crews rowed well. The chief difficulty in the first seems to be a lack of leg drive at the finish of the stroke and too slow body movement. In this last respect the second was better than the first; they got their weight on better, but their blade work was very ragged. The blade work of the first was good, except that at times the blades were high off the water at the catch...
...beginning of the first half, Princeton had slightly the better of it, but Columbia took a brace and by steady attacks on the line and magnificent hurdling forced the ball to Princeton's two yard line. Morley was then pushed through for a touchdown and Bruce kicked goal...
...Shysters won the final game in the scrub football series yesterday, defeating the Whistle B's by the score of 22 to 0. Both teams fumbled considerably, but the Shysters showed better team work and speed, and had little trouble in winning. The game was full of long end runs, Knowles and Piper doing especially well in this respect...
...Pennsylvania team Hare was the star. His general playing was better than that of any other man on the field, and had it not been for him Pennsylvania would have had no strength whatever. Besides playing his position in good style he gained more ground than all the rest of his team taken together, and made most of the tackles on Harvard's end plays. His only fault was slowness in getting his punts away, and this resulted in a touchdown for Harvard. No other man on the Pennsylvania team approached Hare in playing. McCracken and Wallace gained a little...