Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard Gun Club won the shoot from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia last Saturday by the score of 121 to 116. Each man shot at thirty birds at unknown angles. Last year U. of Pa. won under the same conditions, 140 to 134. H. W. Sanford '00 made the best individual score, of twenty-nine out of a possible thirty...
...team scores follow: Harvard. Pennsylvania. Mallinckrodt 28 Cooper 25 Dana 20 Parish 25 Sanford 29 Baldwin 22 Cochrane 20 Singer 21 Blake 24 Carlisle 23 Total, 121 Total...
Although the Pennsylvania team has been playing an unusually poor game all the season, their stand against Harvard on Saturday was unexpectedly weak. Aside from many technical and general faults in their eleven, the physical condition of the men was much inferior to that of Harvard. The strain of their trip to Chicago a week ago, coupled with the questionable policy of keeping the team at the seashore until the morning of the game, resulted in the exhaustion of even those members of the team who were not crippled. The Harvard team, however, was in superb condition...
...even then it has been proved ineffective against a team of equal strength. The few gains the Pennsylvania players were able to make were on clever trick plays and on a variation of Princeton's old revolving wedge. At one time only did they get the ball within Harvard's 25-yard line, when Wallace ran 30 yards, but then they could make no impression on Harvard's line. In the first half Barnard tried a goal from the field from the 40-yard line but failed...
...Harvard's offense, in contrast to the defense, was full of faults, the most fatal of which was fumbling. Against a team playing faster and more accurate football than Pennsylvania, a dropped ball would result in a touchdown for the opponents. Attempts to correct this fault were made early in the season, and it is very discouraging to have it crop out now. The overeagerness of the forwards also cost Harvard the possession of the ball at critical times. Daly's generalship was open to criticism. He undoubtedly put dash into the team, and, as an individual player, was brilliant...