Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...electing Edward W. Mahan '16, captain yesterday, the University football eleven honored a player who has been one of the team's most valuable assets for two years. He has been a brilliant, and better still, a reliable and faithful worker, and as captain he should be a success for he combines with his playing qualities a thorough knowledge of the game and attributes of leadership which make him liked and respected by his team-mates...
Mahan's wonderful football ability is too well known about the University to need comment. His brilliant open-field work, combined with exceptional ability in both drop-kicking and defensive play, has earned for him a place on practically every All-American eleven that has been selected during the past two seasons. His all-around athletic ability is evinced by the fact that he won his baseball "H" last spring, in the pitcher's box, and in his Freshman year won numerals in football, baseball, and track...
Wilson prepared at the Princeton Preparatory School, Princeton, and played on his freshman team. For the last two years he has played a brilliant offensive game on the Yale eleven. He is 21 years old, 6 feet tall and weighs 175 pounds...
...team belongs to the University, and, as a result of its work at New Haven, the University belongs to the team, so both should celebrate the splendid season and its brilliant finale. As the score of the team against Yale surpassed all previous scores, so should the banquet celebrating the event surpass all previous banquets...
...team did not play up to the brilliant promises of the previous week in the contest with Virginia, but a fortunate forward pass and the splendid work of the backfield brought victory to Yale, 21 to 0. A marked weakness in the extremities of the line was evidenced, the southerners gaining considerable ground on wide end runs...