Word: makes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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While the advisability of admitting so many people to the game and taking in so large a sum of gate money is questionable, the intention has been to make sure that every graduate and undergraduate should have a seat of some kind, and the aim of the management has not been mercenary...
...every living Harvard man to join us for his sake and ours. The setting up of such a meeting-house is a little matter, but the holding-up of it on a large-minded, generous, lasting basis is a great matter and is impossible unless you, one and all, make it easy...
...line-up between the first eleven and the scrub yesterday, the Freshman team showed signs of loose playing. The backs bucked the line often without effect, and the second was able to make repeated gains through the centre. The only encouraging feature was the good punting of Stillman, who is beginning to raise his kicks high enough for the ends to get down in time. Several changes were made in the line-up. Jones was tried at right guard instead of Riggs, who until recently has filled the position regularly. McGrew also went in, in place of Nickerson at left...
...correct, and, for the present, it is useless to look further for an explanation of its lack of success. A system of play intended for a team of eleven men cannot be tested unless there are eleven men able to play it. The team has not had the same make-up in any two games of the season. The men were in better physical condition in the Harvard game than at any previous time this season, but owing to long absences from practice, caused by injuries, they had had no adequate preparatory training...
...coaches the team has taken on new life. The weakness of the individuals are known and are not regarded as unconquerable. Their play is not yet up to that of Harvard nor up to the standard of a veteran team, and so there is still much to do. The make -- up of the eleven will be such that to beat it will mean a triumph and the work of whipping it a difficult undertaking...