Word: bulldog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would seem as if the bull-dog must have fed himself full already this fall, especially after slaughtering the unfortunate Tiger a week ago. But John Harvard has within the past fourteen years beaten him so often about the head and shoulders that the bulldog's injured pride has filled him with an unequalled ferocity. In fact the air is full of uncouth growls and mutterings of "at least a three touchdown margin" and "forty-one to nothing or bust...
...whit daunted. His flint-lock is loaded to the muzzle, his pistol is by his side, and every wary instinct is more fully aroused than ever. He has thrown open his arena to the bull-dog today, the better to entrap him; and it will be a lucky bulldog who does not have to be dragged out again by the heels...
...direct comparison of the Harvard and Yale elevens throughout their seasons to date shows unmistakably that the Bulldog team has played the better football all along, although going through a tougher list of opponents, and has shown a remarkable scoring power which has netted the Blue over 200 points. The Harvard season, on the other hand, has been marked by a distinct lack of any offensive power. The eleven developed slowly and it was not until the Princeton game that it showed the high quality of finish and co-ordination commonly associated with Crimson teams. Moreover, Yale is to date...
...spectators could not follow the ball at all and Bucknell had recourse to long passes which happened almost by chance to be successful. The Yale showing was lamentable, the worst in fact throughout the season. The attack was only brilliant in spots, while the defense was miserably weak. The Bulldog lost the ball several times on downs and showed no ability to stop the visitors' passing game...
...Army was Yale's first real objective and the Bulldog eleven in that game even more emphasized its terrific running attack, and what is almost as important, an ability to come form behind and win by a comfortable margin. In the second half the eleven played almost super football and utterly bewildered the cadets by a 31 to 10 score. Furthermore the Yale team was brilliantly handled by Richeson, who showed that at last Yale had found a heady field general who was in addition an extraordinary broken field runner...