Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sharp distinction to this was Harvard's lack of generalship in the second half. It is a serious matter for a team to lose its captain and it is the exception under such a circumstance when demoralization does not set in. All that Harvard can say is that she deplores the unfortunate occurrence and hopes that future elevens may be spared so great a discouragement...
...heard the cheering yesterday afternoon can accuse Harvard of indifference or lack of loyalty. As we have said many times of late the fine feeling which exists among the students has been too evident for any mistake and the climax yesterday was the finest outburst of enthusiasm, the finest evidence of affection for the University, ever given in the form of cheering. Nothing is more touching, nothing more stirring to the sturdy, manly side of college men's natures, than the parting with classmates and fellow-students who go to uphold the honor of their college in contests like these...
...Yale eleven began the season with rather a gloomy outlook inasmuch as it was necessary to find two entirely new tackles and three of the four men behind the line. Another drawback was the lack of coaches in the early part of the season when so much depended upon their help for the formation of team work. The eleven has also been handicapped by the loss of scheduled games that have been cancelled at the last minute...
...oharacterized the work at the beginning of the season both in respect to individual and team play, are apparent at present, and very little advancement has been made. The men themselves are responsible for their individual weaknesses since ample opportunity has been offered to remedy them, while the utter lack of unity in the team is due, to a certain extent, to the constant changing in the makeup of the eleven. The tackling is the most noticeable weakness and affects the playing of almost every man on the team. The halfbacks have not overcome the habits of dropping the ball...
...University should make up his mind that Harvard must win and that he as a student has a part to play in the winning and that that part is to keep out of his own mind and out of his own words everything that savors of doubt and lack of interest. Individual opinion and conjecture should sink out of sight below a great wave of hope and determination. Each one of us should see before him the picture of the game, the final struggle of the men who have faithfully served us this fall and every spark of manly feeling...