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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game was the best and most scientific ever seen in Cambridge, and was full of interest from the beginning to the end. Harvard played a good game, every man on the team working for all he was worth; time and again some of Yale's best tricks were frustrated by the sharp work of our rush line. Our rushers were decidedly better in getting through than in blocking, and their tacking was low and hard. They were not quite so good in making holes and in blocking off the opposing rushers as the Yale rush line was, and occasionally...
...Harvard foot-ball. Here we had an eleven composed of new and inexperienced men, men who have played but this year and who had no traditions to help them: yet they went on the field against what Yale believed to be as strong an eleven as she has ever had, and never breaking, played, a first class scientific, up-hill game. They had little time to get into shape and were not as well up in some of the refinements of the game as Yale, but they played as strong a game as any previous Harvard eleven has ever done...
...have no bad teaching to unlearn. It is, indeed, to this readiness to learn, and to the steadying influence of the old men, that the team as it now stands is due, a team which is admitted by the other colleges to be one of the best Harvard has ever...
...seemed by no means settled until the close of the contest. Harvard presented by far the best eleven she has put in the field for a long time, and their team play excited general comment." Then in an editorial, "All pronounce the game to have been the most scientific ever seen in Princeton." This is very high praise, coming as it does from another college...
...time to improve as much between the game last Saturday and the game to-day as they did between the Wesleyan and the Princeton games, ought to make everybody come out to see the game with a confidence that they are going to see the prettiest game they ever saw in their lives, with a fair chance of the crimson coming out ahead...