Word: game
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...practice was the line-plunging of the backs. No long runs were made, but steady gains resulted in three touchdowns for the first eleven, and in one field goal from the 20 yard line by Sawin. Fumbling at critical times again marred the play. Early in the practice game, Ellis dropped the ball on the second's 2-yard line, and was at once replaced by Reid...
...indifference of the Harvard football management in regard to the purchase by speculators of seats for the Yale game does not compare favorably with the zeal shown by the Yale management in keeping the Yale sections for the exclusive use of Yale men. The Yale News says: "It is a matter of honor that no tickets allotted to a Yale undergraduate be found in the hands of speculators." The Yale football management, in announcing the conditions of seat allotment for the Princeton game, says. "Each applicant is responsible for the tickets allotted him, and the management will print the names...
Governor Roosevelt '80 will attend the Harvard Yale football game November 18, and on his return to New York will pay an official visit to Yale...
...useless to look further for an explanation of its lack of success. A system of play intended for a team of eleven men cannot be tested unless there are eleven men able to play it. The team has not had the same make-up in any two games of the season. The men were in better physical condition in the Harvard game than at any previous time this season, but owing to long absences from practice, caused by injuries, they had had no adequate preparatory training...
...action of the athletic committee in doing away with preliminary practice was a mistake. Beginning a season with so-called "minor games" does not answer the same purpose. the average knowledge of the game and the average strength and efficiency of players the country over have increased with such rapidity that any game, even the first, may be a hard one. The men are both safer physically and better students, as well as better football players for a preliminary period of training and practice. The minor faults may be summed up as follows: 1. Failure to provide for the individual...