Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perfect training, but it is not impossible. Coach Stevens' system of year round training, of long runs and hard workouts, is undoubtedly the only one that will insure the utmost strength in the Harvard shell. Hard work, and hard work alone, can bring the Crimson pennon fluttering in the lead at the end of a long four miles...
...high light of the season was a spectacular 38 to 16 victory over Dartmouth, when the Harvard quintet showed its true worth. The other battles with league teams were defeats, but never by a margin of more than nine points and always after the Crimson had been in the lead for a considerable part of the contest...
...Haven, Conn., March 11.--The Yale quintet won its second decision of the season over Harvard here tonight by the score of 30 to 28. The Crimson five was ahead at half-time 13 to 12, but in the second half the lead see-sawed back and forth, fickle fortune finally favoring the Blue by a bare two-point margin...
...Harvard, the season's finale was a bitter repetition of many earlier contests. The story of a Crimson lead dwindling away as the enemy attack grows hotter has been all too common this season. It is hard to put one's finger on the weak link in the Harvard armor--certain it is that the players have not failed to fight all the harder as they have seen victory ebbing away. The gallant struggle put up tonight by Captain Gordon and his men aroused the handful of Crimson supporters to a high pitch of enthusiasm and evoked the praise...
Gordon's valedictory to intercollegiate basketball was fitting climax to a brilliant career. Scoring more than half his team's points and dominating the attack throughout, he deserved to lead a winning team rather than a losing one, Rudofsky as usual shared the stellar honors with his captain...