Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...general public, mention of it being found in only one Boston paper, and that confined to a scant ten lines announcing the game and ending with this single sentence of general criticism of the affair. "There was a large crowd and much enthusiasm." In spite of the lack of general interest which it aroused, this game on May 15, 1874, marked the beginning of a football regime which has reached its highest point before 47,000 spectators today...
...strong eleven. Early in the season the team was individually good, but the first games being easy, the men were unprepared and unable to stand up against such strong teams as Exeter and Hill when they met them. Saturday's game, however, showed that the Freshmen has overcome this lack of team play and were ready to meet the Yale freshmen...
...there is no reason for feeling discouraged; the backs and ends played brilliantly, individually and collectively; the recurrent lack of power in the line, where ever it lay, was very possibly the consequence of not having previously met really worthy opponents. In any case there is no reason to doubt that this tendency to weakness can and will be remedied before the Yale game...
...most brilliant backfields in the country, its one vulnerable point being the quarterback position. The material for this in comparison with the other three backs, has seemed rather poor; yet the immense improvement shown by Freedley and more particularly by Logan in the recent games, seems to indicate no lack of good generalship in the Princeton contest...
...shift which placed Storer at the right wing, with Gilman filling the tackle position. The regular line is now intensely powerful on the defence, one through which no team yet played has been able to gain appreciably; on the offence it is not so good, seeming to lack somewhat the fighting punch even when well down in the enemies' territory...