Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This afternoon at 3 o'clock Harvard plays the Cornell eleven on Soldiers Field and, judging from their recent scores against Princeton of 0-10, against Lafayette of 4-4, and against Tufts of 15-0, it is safe to say that the 'Varsity will have to play hard football if they expect to do much scoring Corfiell's team undoubtedly is much stronger than last year. The line is heavy and aggressive and is well backed by a set of hardrushing backs...
...backs have, however, improved somewhat this week under the coaching of G. S. Curtis '92 and J. L. Knox '98 and when they get running well together are apt to hit the line with some force. As the team has played no hard games it is impossible to tell how effective their interference will prove against such a strong line as that of the Junior eleven...
...with the English High team, which proved very weak, allowing a score of 24 points to be run up in two short halves. From then until the Groton game of this week there have been only practice line-ups with the Freshmen and 1900, so that it has been hard to judge of the work of the team...
...Varsity held its weekly secret practice yesterday afternoon, and although there was no line-up, the whole hour being spent in a hard and systematic drill of signals and plays, the practice was decidedly encouraging from the fact that all of the men who have been laid off with injuries during the past few weeks were out again and in fairly good condition. Sawin went through the plays with the second eleven, and Bouve, Swain and Donald took their old places in the line. Of the latter, Donald is the only man whose injuries will still keep...
...Varsity practice yesterday afternoon consisted of two ten-minute halves, one with the second eleven and one with the Freshmen. In the first half the plays were run off with plenty of snap and the backs and ends especially played hard and fast. The second half showed the 'Varsity playing carelessly and indifferently. The line-up was changed a number of times, most of the changes being made at end and quarter, so that this perhaps unsettled the team as much as anything else...