Word: drives
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This was evident in the Princeton game. The ends again played wonderfully; the line was a stone wall on the defence; but offensive drive was lacking. The forwards failed to open holes for the backfield, and Harvard lost. Of course the team was placed at a disadvantage by early injuries to Potter and Gardiner, and by the lack of a first-class punter, but even with these handicaps it would have won, had the offence had the power to make the last punch...
Keyed up for revenge for the defeat in 1910, the team crushed Brown, 15 to 0, the next week. From end to end, from centre to back there was "lift and drive" that tore Brown to pieces. Ketcham beat the ends down under kicks several times, even though Bomeisler and Avery were on Sprackling before he could have started. The only gloom over the entire exhibition was the fumbling...
...shade more; second, that to hit that chance is going to require the most enthusiastic determined moral support at mass meetings or other demonstrations of that same spirit; and, third, that in the Stadium on Saturday there must be a real power behind the team to give it that drive necessary to defeat such an antagonist as Yale will surely prove...
...toward the goal we drive them,--Faster we rush along...
...faith in the coaches but unless it is expressed, why continue to support a team? The coming three weeks is just exactly the time when moral support is going to be decisive. Harvard undergraduates as well as Harvard teams have not been famous in the past for the irresistible drive of their enthusiasm when vanquished. Here is the best sort of time in dispell quickly the ever prevalent gloom after defeat. Let us forget the mistakes, weaknesses, or whatever they were, of last Saturday and prepare to receive Yale as she has never been received before in Cambridge...