Word: handed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that both teams threatened their opponent's goal line and both lost the opportunities presented them. Yale threw away the opening that she had secured after rushing the ball steadily to Harvard's 12yard line, on a mistaken signal followed by a fumble by DeSaulles. Harvard, on the' other hand, has no such plea of carelessness to vindicate herself for not gaining the coveted four yards to the Yale line. To rush the ball only four yards, after the determined attack on Yale's line which had netted so many gains, should have been inevitable. Failure to accept such...
Yale played fiercely and made every opportunity count. This was especially true of their forwards, who were not content with stopping plays aimed at them but broke through and often tackled for loss. Harvard's line, on the other hand, was at times forced steadily for small gains. The men played strictly on the defensive and merely did their best to stop Yale's rushes. They got under their man, but the fierceness of Yale's attacks and the impetus with which they plunged into Harvard's line, inevitable carried them forward for small two and three yard gains...
...proverbial grit against heavy disadvantages. The sympathies of all sportsmen have been with her in her efforts to maintain the magnificent record she has made in the past, by the exercise of those qualities which even her hereditary opponents cannot but admire and honor. Harvard, on the other hand, has strained every nerve to burst the chain of defeats which have been piling up their weight until it has become almost unendurable. The two teams have met, therefore-the one desperate in its fight to prove worthy of proud traditions; the other equally desperate in its struggle for vindication...
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