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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...denounced the lack of support given the team by the class, but commended the spirit of those who attended the meeting. Coach Rollins gave a resume of the season to date, telling how the team had gone through its crucial test in the Exeter game and had only just found itself. He urged as many Freshmen as possible to make the trip to New Haven with the team...
...noted it will be patent that the outlying backs were laboring under a fearful disadvantage. Princeton of course recognized all this when she won the toss and elected to impose upon the Crimson the handicap of these factors. What Nassau expected to happen did happen. The Harvard backs found themselves by the adverse conditions, and later, when positions were reversed, the Tigers found themselves in similar plight. But this, of course, offers no alibis for the fumbling of the ball on plays into the line. Both teams committed this fault, without evil effect, however, except in one instance, when...
...acceptably, if not brilliantly, in protecting their wings. All things considered, the rival lines had pretty much of an even break of it. The Harvard backfield, aside from kicking, was superior to the Princeton backfield. Harvard did her share of ballchanging and thimble-rigging on attack, but found her most consistent gains arising from straightaway thrusts and sharp slants. Wheeler and Sweetser, of Harvard, played finely at the tackles, particularly in the second half, and Thacher and Horween's defensive work was good...
...damaging work. Up to the Princeton game the team was distinctly an unknown quantity, but today the graduates of Harvard, the public and the coaches realize that they have an eleven which has been put to the test, and even with many of the breaks against them, were not found wanting...
...October. L. H. Leary '05, who has coached the ends on the victorious teams of the last few years, directed the squad until Coach Haughton's business duties enabled him to come to the field, but the presence of the head coach was necessary before the team really found itself...