Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Dimond and Cooke were easily the stars of the offence. They followed the ball closely and evaded the Yale defence. Captain O. G. Daly '17 played an especially strong game on defence. He broke up the Yale advance again and again, saving the goal guard many difficult stops. Emmons at goal played a good game and in the second half when the play centered mostly around the University goal, his work was of the best...
...time goes by the facilities for obtaining a higher education are becoming less difficult. Even the prolonged preparatory training and the bank account are unnecessary, and many an ambitious man earns his way through four years by doing some of the various tasks at hand in a college town...
...response to hard work was very satisfactory, but on the technical side of the game the coaches found it more difficult to restore the fundamentals. The work is not yet completed, but it is conceded by almost every man who has followed Yale football for the past half dozen years that there has been considerable improvement in this respect...
...defence against any running attack. Its backfield is as good as any I have seen in years when it is going strong, as the backs I have witnessed--Legore, Carey, Bingham and Smith--are well set up, have a drive that carries them forward when tackled and are exceedingly difficult to down in the open. On a dry field the attack is at its best. On a wet turf it lacks the punch and brilliancy that marks its work on firm footing, due to the principle folowed in advancing the ball off tackle or around...
...Billy Thaw and Rockwell came over me, 3,700 metres they must have been; I tried to follow them but found it difficult. Up by A-- I recrossed the lines, taking a look at T-- and returned over M--. I met the same reception, but their aim was wild, two or three hundred metres above, and a scattering way under me. Nary a Boche sailing over that misty...