Word: combat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Dartmouth team continues to use the old style football, which proved so successful last Saturday. However, in order to combat with any results the open style of play, much attention has been given the past week to breaking up forward passes. By the return to the team of Captain Bennett and Englehorn, which is expected in a few days, the line will be made even stronger. No heavy work has been done this week, but the team is playing together very well and Dartmouth men are confident of success in the game with Vermont this Saturday...
...Captain Fisher has said, is a fighter; but if, at the outset of an important game, any player makes a mistake and the opposing team seems to "get the jump" for a moment, the student body seems to lose heart and to desert the team. Thereafter, the players must combat not only the strength of their adversaries, but the discouraging pessimism of the whole Harvard stands...