Word: blue
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interview printed in the Boston Herald Coach Lawrence Bankart, of the Colgate football eleven, the team that gave Yale such a close battle last Saturday, said that the Blue did not have the strong team that is generally supposed...
Bankart has during his several years at Colgate given Yale a lot of trouble, twice beating the Blue and two other times losing by close scores...
...There are several different respects in which the Blue are superior to the Harvard Freshmen. Their ends are excellent. They outclass anything Harvard has to offer. Also, they have a speedy, hard-hitting backfield that will be hard to stop. How great a success the team has against Harvard will depend largely on the extent to which the line improves...
...offensive strength was lost because of penalties. The Hamilton eleven was penalized for a total of 95 yards. Yale's defence on its own goal line was a very different thing from its defence in the middle of the field and at the very beginning of the game the Blue team held its opponents for four downs in the shadow of the goal posts...
...Harvard has a better kicking game than Yale, and Princeton's is a shade better than Harvard's. The Crimson and the Blue are both proficient in fundamentals, but Harvard's handling of the ball was better on Saturday than anything Yale or Princeton have done...