Word: poor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Battery A defeated the First Corps of Cadets by the score of 6 to 0 in the Stadium yesterday morning. Both teams showed the effects of poor condition, and lack of practice. The game was marred by the unsportsmanlike aggressiveness of several of the individuals on each side during the final period...
...Battery had by far the heavier and faster team, and it was only due to poor generalship that the score was not larger. The play was always in the Cadets' territory and the Battery goal-line was never in danger. The Battery scored its touchdown on a forward pass. Wadsworth sent the ball to Dana, who, aided by good interference, ran 17 yards to the goal-line. Dana kicked the goal, although the angle was an extremely difficult...
...third period, Yale was never closer than 52 yards to Harvard's goal, while Harvard missed two excellent chances to score. From her 48-yard line, the University team carried the ball to Yale's 27-yard line, but lost it on a poor forward pass. Yale could not gain in three rushes and Harvard get the short kick on Yale's 38-yard line. After two rushes had advanced the ball five yards, Lewis, standing on the 34-yard line, tried a drop-kick, but it fell short and Yale got the ball...
...Indians tackled hard, but their play lacked finish and decisiveness, and their generalship was poor at times. Their best play was a well-developed criss-cross aimed at the tackle, but they were unable to gain by this at all consistently...
...Yale next Saturday. In the West Point game the Yale team was composed of good material, but the team-play was decidedly crude. In the Princeton game, however, the work of the coaches was evident in an improved machine and a more highly polished team-play. Yale has been poor but has passed through the worst part of her season, and will be "coming" during the whole of the week, and it must be remembered that she has prestige and a remarkable faculty of improving up to the moment when she meets Harvard. One of Yale's new plays, however...