Word: poore
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...report the game to the close, and yet the complete account in the CRIMSON was on sale before that of Union. The first copy of the CRIMSON came off the press twenty seconds from the time the last dispatch was received. In spite of Harvard's defeat, and poor service accorded the CRIMSON by Springfield news agents, so many thousands of copies were sold that, including money from advertisements, the heavy expenses of the extra were cleared...
However, this is a very poor spirit for two schools such as these to show, though it should be said in defense of Exeter that the faculty and students were ignorant of Donovan's record. Whereas the case was probably different with Glynn...
Everybody who attended the game Saturday must have felt that the cheering was about as poor as it could possibly have been. There was little unity about it and almost no enthusiasm. In fact we have never known a game in which Harvard supporters have made so little demonstration of their feeling. There was a certain amount of excuse for this in the fact that not enough men were appointed to lead the cheering and again in the fact that the sections were so large that the leaders could not make themselves heard. But even admitting this...
...ashamed of the eleven which represented our University. They gave a magnificent exhibition of football, especially in the first half. More than this, it was not the individual playing alone that was excellent, but the team play as well. Time was when Harvard presented good individual players and a poor team. Thanks to the work of the coaches, and the fine spirit shown by the eleven, that time is now gone...
...moment more, when Yale secured the ball on downs, the blue waved and the crimson was still. Butterworth made a poor kick which netted only twenty yards. Harvard carried it right straight back...