Word: favored
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...large number of hard games. The defense is especially efficient and the men work together well. The game this afternoon is the fourth of the University team's schedule, and will probably be the closest of those to be played in Cambridge this season. The chances seem slightly to favor Dartmouth...
...Freshmen have been practicing since before the Christmas recess, but as several of the best players are on probation, the team has progressed slowly. As a result the chances this afternoon favor the Sophomores...
...basketball practice last evening the University team defeated the second team by the score of 20 to 14. At the close of the first half the score was 12 to 0 in favor of the second team. The University team did not attempt to shoot for goals, but endeavored to retain possession of the ball under its opponents' basket. In the second half the University team was allowed to try for baskets and easily made 10 goals. On the whole, improvement was shown over the work of the Pennsylvania game in both shooting and passing. At times the University team...
...Paris newspapers which is not always a paragon of truth says the students at Harvard are going to take up Association football. May I say something in its favor? It is not a gruelling, prize-fighting game, nor is it one especially adapted for blacksmiths, stevedores or life-guardsmen. Nor is it particularly famous for shouldering, shoving, hauling, kneeing and mass-plays. Nor is it played by men in buckram, so padded and protected that the players' grandmothers cannot look at them without a shudder. But it is football, and the kind where the player punishes the ball...
...rink and scoring on a swift shot from the side. The second point was made by Wilder after a scrimmage in front of Columbia's goal, and two minutes later Callaway scored again on a similar play. The period ended with the score 3 to 0 in Harvard's favor. In the second period the University team weakened somewhat, but scored twice. Callaway made the first goal of the half on a life from the side of the rink, and soon after Wilder scored on a pass from Newhall who had carried the puck the length...