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...Upton, the honors were even. After that Yale clearly had the advantage. Harvard put up a strong defensive game, while the breaking through and tackling was superb. Yale's interference succumbed time and time again to the hard low tackles. Every man played the game of his life. The pluck and determination which Emmons and Upton showed cannot be praised too highly. While Upton made his long run around the end he was playing almost mechanically, the hard treatment he had been given having made him nearly insensible. Trafford signaled but he did not hear. He signaled again and Upton...
...work which the eleven has done the last few weeks has been of encouraging and almost incredible nature, for it has been shown what pluck and determination can do in a short time against great odds. Not long ago there was a feeling prevailing in the College, and perhaps not without cause, that our prospects for victory were poor; and since then confidence in the team and coachers has gradually fallen off and we have grown more and more depressed. But, as we have said, in the last few weeks the eleven has taken a tremendous stride, and with redoubled...
...glad to hear that Ben J. Worman, '95, whose accident was at first supposed to be fatal, is now out of danger. A letter dated Friday morning, was received Saturday, from his father, Dr. J. H. Worman, and later a telegram, which report his condition as most favorable. His pluck and the strength of his constitution pulled him through...
...Harvard eleven showed a tremendous amount of pluck and endurance. Undismayed by Yale's immediate touch down, they went to work with great spirit, and though Yale twice pushed the ball up near Harvard's line, the crimson rush-line blocked and tackled beautifully and effectually stopped any further advance. Towards the end of the first half Harvard played a distinctly better game than before, and succeeded, to a certain extent, in breaking up Yale's interference. In the second half, also, the physical strength of the Harvard men kept the ball in Yale's territory a large part...
...really not have played yesterday; and Putnam at right end has been laid off on account of minor injuries. Altogether the condition of the team was not such as to make a very good showing possible, and the game that they played yesterday was remarkable for its bull-dog pluck...