Word: hards
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...than Coach Crane. The spirit that the undergraduates have shown in their demonstration Monday evening and at this meeting gives the team great confidence because they know that the University is back of them. The men on Saturday will flight to the end and will put up a good, hard game...
Yesterday's football practice for the University squad was, like Monday's entirely secret. There was no scrimmage but the men were given a long, hard preliminary drill, consisting of the usual breaking through, punting, catching punts and tackling. In the signal practice, the new plays were run through and much attention was given to the signals themselves...
...undergraduates which has ever assembled marched over Cambridge and cheered until they were hoarse. Does that indicate that the men who have backed the team throughout the season are running to cover under the so-called "Harvard indifference," merely because we have two defeats behind us and a hard game ahead? Let us ignore technical perfection for a few days. No team ever won a real victory by that alone, and many "invincible" teams have learned that the right sort of a fight will disturb the most thoroughly perfected plans...
...practice as a whole was most encouraging. Coach Cutts put the line men through a stiff breaking through drill, and the ends were given lots of defensive work by Coaches Campbell and Leary. Coach Campbell also took a squad of ends outside of the Stadium and gave them a hard drill at tackling the dummy. He sent the men at it from all sides and emphasized tackling hard and low. The backs were put through play after play under Coach Daly with an eye to developing team play and good interference...
...backfield, and in his first game of the season showed all his former speed and ability to keep his feet. He made some fumbles, however, which proved costly. Apollonio backed up the line well on the defense and when called upon to carry the ball, he hit the line hard and was never thrown for a loss. Captain Glaze of Dartmouth deserves credit for the manner in which he ran his team, and for the fighting spirit of the men, for which he was largely responsible...