Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...victorious Yale eleven was run with superb management on the part of Captain Hinkey. They followed out a well defined policy with perfect coolness and confidence. Their tactics were finely adapted to the conditions which were brought about by their luck in winning the toss. With the wind at their backs they played strictly a kicking game and gained enormously by it. Harvard was not able to punt more than half the distance against the strong wind, consequently she was put upon the offensive for the greater part of the first half...
Yale's team as a whole gave perhaps the best exhibition of football seen in years. This was truer, however, in the first than in the second half. Brilliant individual work by Butterworth and Thorne was admirably combined with almost perfect team play; so perfect, in fact, that the few cases in which Harvard was individually supperior to Yale in the line, did not affect the result to any great extent. There was the same elock-like regularity in their movements and wonderful steadiness under all conditions which is one of the striking features of Yale elevens. The fierce, sudden...
...sale of tickets for the Springfield game was more successful this year than ever before. Last year the system of assigning seats on application was first introduced, and this year it met with perfect success. So many applications were received that all the seats on the Harvard side of the field as well as many in the end sections were taken. Each application was given the best seat left, under its conditions, the result being that many got seats further from the middle of the field than they could have wished...
...strong in individual players, made no pretence of team play, but in this respect they were not much inferior to the freshmen. The work of the freshmen during the entire season has been spasmodic and, at present, is very discouraging. This is especially so when the time allowed to perfect their play is compared with the time already spent and the results which have been attained. The faults which oharacterized the work at the beginning of the season both in respect to individual and team play, are apparent at present, and very little advancement has been made. The men themselves...
...coaches except Stewart and Harding, gave them their attention. Praise was given to the second, blame to the first. It was just what the first eleven needed. If the second can be kept up to the standard set yesterday, the first will be obliged to have almost perfect interference to gain against them, precisely as they will at Springfield...