Word: long
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...long distance, however, must be covered before the Yale game. These next weeks the College, as well as the team itself should, in the words of Coach Hardwick, "eat, drink, and sleep football." Every opportunity to help the team along, every chance to add a little more spirit to that fighting organization, must be utilized to full capacity. Victories in the early season will not win the Yale game; only hard work by every member of the University will accomplish this result...
There is no question that great credit is due the Harvard team for its remarkable uphill fight, and it can safely be said that it has been a long while since the Harvard eleven has played a contest under such difficult conditions...
...Crimson, however, showed two brilliant bits of defense. Twice they held the Orange and Black for four downs within their five-yard line. Gilroy, the big Princeton half-back, was the individual star of the game, and time after time crashed through tackle for long gains. The work of the Tiger ends, Jones and Sniveley, was also remarkable, and their interference was the best that has been seen in any Freshman game this year. The longest single run was made by Bergen, who plowed through the line for 80 yards for the final touchdown...
West Virginia, like Colgate is a stronger aggregation than any Harvard has opposed this year. Hers is a team of veterans who are, at the same time, marvelous specimens physically. The Mountaineers scored two touchdowns early in the first period as the result of long forward passes which were successful by the narrowest possible margin. Forward passes, again, netted the other later touchdowns. All of these passes might easily have failed, leaving the score...
...former school-boy stars. However, the team has one excellent asset. The men have shown throughout the season an eagerness to learn and a zeal for accomplishment which so far has brought them out on top in each of the preliminary games. Spirit and team-play will go a long way toward winning football games, but every member of the Freshman squad realizes that, with Chapin, Kunhardt, and De Jonge, who have played a big part in the early games, forced to watch the contest from the sidelines, only the utmost effort by the team will bring victory Saturday...