Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game and victory seemed almost certain. The superior endurance of the Princeton team then began to count and during the last half hour the game was too one-sided to be interesting. The cause of the defeat was quite evident. Our men had not been trained to play a hard game for an hour and a half and the tremendous efforts of the first part seemed to exhaust them. Princeton, on the contrary, has played a full game and more every day in practice, and consequently seemed to improve in strength and skill proportionately as our team weakened...
...says, no favoritism is ever allowed in the selection of men. The men who are sought after are those who show activity, endurance and pluck, brute strength being regarded as inferior to these qualities. The men are trained easily for a week so that they become thoroughly hardened before hard play begins. The captain watches carefully the peculiarities of each man and places him in a position accordingly. The share of work is as fairly divided as possible so that no one man shall become too tired to do his part in an emergency. A great deal of-attention...
...superior to Trafford. In Harvard's rushline Crosby played a very vigorous game, making some superb tackles, and following the ball well, but blocking poorly. On the other end McDonald several times got around Hutchinson. The three centre men broke through well, but at times failed to block hard. Dean at quarter-back played a strong game, using his head well, while Lee showed improvement in holding the ball and tackling. Trafford at fullback played steadily and well all the way through...
...played, with those of former years shows that the team is not up to the usual average, for this time of the season. The playing of the team at Philadelphia, in the championship game with the University of Pennsylvania was very poor and clearly proves the necessity of hard work if the eleven is to be brought up to the desired standard...
...Hare and Hounds runs yesterday W. Alexander L. S. and F. P. King '91 acted as hares leaving the gymnasium at 4.05. Seven minutes and a half later almost fifteen hounds were sent away under J. D Gorbam '90. The run was hard and long the hounds having so much difficulty in following the trail that they gave it up returning to the gymnasium at 5.20 led by W. C. Downs. The hares came in at 5.24. Both hares and the first hound will receive cups...