Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game which the Yale freshmen played against the Harvard freshmen last Saturday was very like many other freshman games which have been played in the past. It is always difficult for a freshman team to play a scientific game of football because they are generally broken up just before the games by the admission of a number of new players from the 'varsity teams who are entirely ignorant of the game the team has been playing. The freshman teams at both Yale and Harvard are also much neglected in the matter of coaching there being seldom anybody around college...
...Princeton man has a very quick punt and a reasonably good drop kice, and he runs well with the ball; but he lacks experience and is very apt to get excited. Harvey is good at all points of a fullback's play, and has had considerable experience. It is difficult to compare the work of the halfbacks. Princeton has no one man who is as good as McClung; but on the other hand both her men are probably better than any man Yale has outside of him. Spicer is a good line breaker, and King runs much as Channing...
...groups and small portraits alike are executed with great care and individuality. Among the smaller pictures the snow scenes show a unique power in the use of white; and the paintings of the Pearl Mosque give the effect of reflection on a marble floor so perfectly that it is difficult to believe, at first, that the scenes are only on canvass. The mosque pictures also show a remarkable power of detail...
McClung's Touch-down and Goal.McClung, by a good rush, carried it over. He also kicked a very difficult goal, and the enthusiasm of the Yale men knew no bounds. Score, Harvard 12; Yale...
...touch-down and Whitman kicked a goal. Score 6-0. Cambridge got the ball and by repeated rushes through the centre Raymond scored again. Score 10-0. The try for a goal failed and Thayer caught the ball and quickly added another touch-down, from which Whitman kicked a difficult goal. Score...