Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harvard has recovered. Such appears to be the universal opinion of football critics. And men who on November 5 said that Harvard could not defeat Yale, are beginning to think better of the remark. Two factors have led to a reconsideration: Yale was unable to run up as great a score on Princeton as was Harvard, and Harvard fairly defeated the team which plainly outclassed Princeton. Hence, Harvard stock, so to speak, rises accordingly, Yale declines, and all goes merrily--until next Saturday. Then the crash comes and we must wait for another chance, when we shall, of course, profit...
...shift is dependent upon the speed of the linemen in getting to the line of scrimmage and upon the variety of formations which can be used in shifting the line. The Yale backfield gets around the runner in good style and puts the defensive linemen out of play much better and surer than do the Harvard backs...
...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...
...hearsay, there is each year the usual high grade football to be seen at the Yale-Princeton game. So far fortune has favored the New Jersey team, against Harvard and especially against Dartmouth, where an acknowledged fluke gave Princeton the victory over what was seen to be the better team. Princeton supporters, therefore, have good cause to look forward this season to the first victory over Yale in many years. Both elevens have unusual reasons for feeling that a victory is necessary and it is safe--to say--that the game will be hard-fought, desperate football from the start...
...pace which will lead it on to victory next week. Many experts predict that this will be the case, as the earlier games showed a great deal of latent power in the squad. On the other hand, Dartmouth comes to Cambridge backed by 1500 supporters and a record far better than the University team can show. Dartmouth men cannot be blamed for believing that a team which evidently played far better hall against Princeton than did Harvard, especially in the line where Harvard was the weakest, will have an even chance against the Harvard team. Thus it can be seen...