Word: factors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...early-season defeat will never cause us to lose hope of victories in the future; in fact a defeat such as the football team sustained on Saturday will undoubtedly prove to be a great factor in victories to come, for it dispells the feeling of over-confidence that is bound to follow a season as glorious as last year's, and it brings us to the realization that a defeat is quite possible--even to a Harvard eleven...
Eddie Driggs especially showed up and punting was a powerful factor. Moore and Brown, his backfield mates, exhibited bursts of speed which time after time caught the local collegians off guard and brought about appreciable gains for the Tigers. The early training done by Princeton this season was proved a big benefit, as the players went through the game without showing any ill effects and played at high speed throughout...
...perhaps Flower, perhaps Casey--and then to effect an interlocking system in which each man will do his part to make the play a success. Yale will unquestionably use Le Gore in this way, and if the proper supporting combination can be arranged, he will be a dangerous offensive factor, since versatility is, so to speak, his middle name. Princeton will undoubtedly work over the idea; in fact, every team with a progressive coach will do something with the play if only because it is so difficult to diagnose and stop when it is well worked, and when not stopped...
...competitive work consists mainly of securing subscriptions and advertisements with general business efficiency as a recognized factor. Men in this competition not only come in intimate contact with undergraduates but gain a large amount of practical experience from their business relations with firms in Boston, New York and other cities...
...great factor of interference with the plan of the coaches is military exigence. A good many guards and tackles and "backs" are in camp or on the border with the militia. Should not a proper sense of values move even a stern and warlike Government to release them to the greater service? Because a college president becomes President of the United States, must he revise the order of the grades in the academic climax: For God-for country-and for the dear old college? Let the boys come home, to learn the greater strategy of line bucking, end running...