Word: hards
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...were no better than Harvard's, nor did they play as brilliantly, but her concentrated attack and ability to push the ball over the goal line when once within striking distance, was what brought Yale out of the contest victorious. It was a game in which eleven individuals played hard and well against a more perfectly working, machine-like team, equipped with an offense that was able to gain ten yards in three downs by means of straight football...
...improvement which the Harvard team showed over the previous games was wonderful. There was no lack of aggressiveness and of fierce, hard playing up to the very end of the game. Where Harvard had been considered weak, she was strong, and those players who were known to be strong, put up their very best games. No scrimmage had been held since the Dartmouth game; but the effects of the coaches' work was everywhere evident, and above everything else the change that Coach Campbell had brought about in the ends was strikingly shown. It had been the aim of the coaches...
Wendell, Newhall and Macdonald played the most brilliant games, for the University team. Wendell's 27-yard end run just before the close of the game was, except for Brides's run in the first half, the longest run of the day. Throughout the game his hard running was a feature. Newhall's work was exceptionally good. In spite of the bandage over his eye, he caught and ran back punts almost perfectly, and his generalship was excellent. Although not Harvard's regular punter, he was called on to do most of the kicking on account of Burr's being...
...whole, the weak points of the team have been a lack of efficient, ground-gaining trick plays and formations and an undeveloped secondary defense. The team fights hard, however, and the snap which they have at times put into their play, when the odds seemed or were hopelessly against them, has been remarkable
...Hard luck for poor...