Word: penn
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...critical time came the Penn. State team, with experience, strength and speed. Fighting for every inch of ground, the visitors opposed Harvard with a staunch line that often crumpled the Crimson defense and smeared the University plays. It may be with considerable satisfaction, therefore, that Harvard records the victory of last Saturday...
Lead by Captain Mahan, who played with a brilliant versatility, the Harvard offense succeeded in showing some real football, especially in the third quarter, when the Crimson took the ball from Harvard's 18-yard line and carried it straight down the field across the Penn. State goal line. It was an 82-yard march made by short but sure advances, a flash of that plow-like attack that has been used so gloriously by past Harvard teams...
...centre of the line Dadmun, Wallace and Taylor played a fairly good game. This trio, however, must be in the thick of the fight at every moment, and the three men do not yet work together with sufficient power. The Penn. State linemen, strong and aggressive, repulsed the Harvard line often, bursting great holes in the Crimson defense through which effective Penn. State bucks were hurled. The centre of the Harvard line neither held with the tenacity necessary to a firm defense, nor did it succeed in throwing back the opposing line with enough force to make way for Harvard...
Harte and Soucy have developed into two good ends, at last able to diagnose forward passes and to block them. Penn. State was proficient in the pass, but the Harvard ends usually broke up passes which threatened completion in dangerous territory...
...quarterback position, where Watson and Robinson seem to be the two most likely candidates. Even with his experience Watson will have difficulty in beating out Robinson, and Wilcox is altogether too erratic for use in either of the big games. Boles did some good work against Penn. State, handling punts unusually well, and he may have an opportunity to play...