Word: pluckings
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...brilliant individual work unaided by interference, and occasional spontaneous developments of team play from the exigencies of a desperate situation. In defense, on the contrary, the Harvard team played till the whistle blew for the last time a truly heroic game, a game in which by sheer grit and pluck in the face of insuperable seconds eleven men time and again stayed off a finally inevitable defeat at the hands of one of the best teams which ever played for Yale...
Exeter's advantage of superior weight was offset by inability to handle the wet ball, two touchdowns being prevented by fumbles near the goal line. The Freshmen, though outplayed, made a hard fight and showed a spirit of pluck and determination that was entirely lacking in the Groton game...
...final game found the elevens of both universities in the best of condition and a contest resulted that was fully worthy of the large crowd of 30,000 spectators who witnessed the play. It was a defeat, decisive and convincing, but one which the pluck and unremitting endeavor of the losers rendered almost as satisfying as a victory. Even after Yale had scored two touchdowns in the first half, such was the power already made evident by the Harvard team that a successful outcome was still expected with a large degree of confidence. To those who knew the real strength...
Harvard defeated the University of Maine on Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon by a score of 22 to 0. The game, or at least the first half of it, was a struggle in which a light team of slight experience, through mere pluck and determination, made a much heavier team fight extraordinarily hard for the ground it gained. During the fifteen minutes of the first half, the Harvard eleven was rarely able to gain its distance in less than three downs, several times lost the ball, and was frequently forced to punt. Had not fresh players been used in the Harvard...
...other who men won points by second and third places all deserve credit for showing pluck and sand...