Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spite of two defeats and numerous injuries has undoubtedly benefited by it. The Princeton, Carlisle, and Dartmouth games have given the men, both regulars and substitutes, a thorough trying-out, and they will enter the Yale game knowing what it is to fight for every last inch of ground with a team of their own caliber. This was not true last year when the team has two easy games before the Yale game, and was not fitted with the proper experience for a championship contest...
Then after the Amherst game, a poor test of any team's ability because of the muddy condition of the ground, came the Brown game with its suprising result. Brown because of its victory over Pennsylvania had been greatly overestimated. Consequently when Sprackling was smothered and the Brown team over whelmed, 20 to 6, the pendulum swung too far the other way and Harvard was considerably overestimated Outsiders noticed only the wonderful all-round work of the ends, the stone-wall defence of the line, and the flash of offensive power which scored Harvard's first touchdown; they...
...Ground gained on rushing and running back of punts--Yale 388 yards, Princeton 192 yards...
...Ground lost by rushing--Princeton 29 yards, Yale 9 yards...
...clock yesterday evening, a fire started from an unknown cause in the branch offices of the Bay State Fuel Company at the foot of Dunster street. The store-shed with over 30 sleighs was burned to the ground, and the stable was badly gutted, although all of the 26 horses were saved by the quick work of a number of students. After three alarms had been turned in, the fire was finally placed under control and soon burned itself...