Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Taken as a whole the practice was decidedly encouraging and gave decisive evidence that even a team composed largely of substitutes can play a hard, fast game, with energy and determination behind them...
...powers who have charge of such matters may have many ideas on the subject, they seem disposed to say very little. As far as has been reported the Athletic Council has not as yet discussed the rowing situation and until that is done nothing of a startling or even of an interesting nature will develop. But, while nothing regarding future policy in detail is now known, something may be said about the condition, as it were, of rowing matters...
...inevitable. Failure to accept such a chance may have been largely due to the generalship at such a critical stage. It certainly seems reasonable to suppose that those four yards could have been covered with more certainty by Bouve than by lighter men like Cabot, Parker and Garrison. However, even with those men carrying the ball, Harvard's forwards instead of playing an up-hill game should have forced the Yale line, with the same reckless gait which had carried the ball...
Yale's defense was strong, incomparably stronger than it had been represented, yet even with this unexpected force against them, Harvard's forwards should still have carried the preponderance in their favor. As it was, the line almost to a man played football hardly consistent with their ability, and not one man exceeded his past capabilities, a fact brought out in glaring contrast to the work of the Yale line. The Harvard team undoubtedly had underestimated Yale's defensive strength, and it is also probable that Yale considered Harvard's defensive stronger than it was. It was just this...
...showed great improvement in the teamwork of the eleven. In comparing the Yale and Harvard teams, the Williams men thought that Yale's play was far more snappy, but her defence was much weaker. The work against Newton A. A. the following Saturday was most discouraging, even considering the number of substitutes that went into the game. The ends and tackles showed themselves to be the weakest parts of the team...