Word: kind
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...continued failure of the University football team to give indications of appreciable improvement is causing a general lack of confidence among those who have been watching the work from day to day. Occasionally the monotony of practices in which fumbling, poor defense and errors of every kind are the only features, is broken by a day of good spirited playing, but these exceptions are few. This whole state of affairs, moreover, is in decided contrast with the situation last year, when at this time the fundamentals of football had been thoroughly drilled into the men and the general development...
...Saturday the team played Penn. State and only by the hardest kind of football were they able to score twice. The defense was strong, but on the offense slowness and fumbling prevented consistent scoring...
...played probably only during part of the game. As a whole, the Harvard team is undeveloped, with nothing to depend upon but weight, spirit and individual ability. No tricks or tackless back plays have yet been perfected and all the offensive work will be done by the simplest kind of end-running and line-plunging...
...line-up between the first and second elevens started well but after that the playing was of the kind that could have been equalled or surpassed by any preparatory school team. Marshall received the kick off and made a clever run of 30 yards to the centre of the field, and on the next play the ball was punted to Noyes on the second team's twenty-five yard line. An advance of five yards by Foster was followed by a kick to the first eleven's fifty yard line, but after gaining 15 yards in about five plays...
...here, but the many faults of the Harvard team were enough to take away any pleasure which might have been derived from watching the play. Not only did Bowdoin score, but at the end of the first half had a lead of 6 points to 5; and the hardest kind of work was required of the Harvard team to avoid defeat. Fumbling was the cause of most of Harvard's difficulties, as it was on this account that the team once failed to make a touchdown and at the same time allowed Bowdoin to score. The fact that the Bowdoin...