Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Richard Hapgood is the power behind the typewriter on which the Boston Herald's news is daily pounded out. He prepared for Harvard at Andover, and graduated from the University in the class of 1925. His dignity makes up for what it loses in not being paraded through the Herald sport columns on a "by-line" by the fact that he has an office of notorious hospitality in the Cambridge Savings Bank Building. If the mere possession of an office with all rent paid is not sufficient to prove Dick a thoroughly good correspondent, let it be mentioned that...
George Owen Jr. '23, who in his three years of football at Harvard was a jinx to Yale teams, commenting yesterday to the CRIMSON on today's game, said: "Harvard has shown on several occasions this fall that it has power. But it has not yet shown the sustained power that will be necessary in its biggest game, and whether it attains that power is a question that only the team can decide...
...Harvard has a chance, a narrow, fighting chance. Yale's offensive strength is directed mainly through its opponent's tackles and guards. An alert Crimson line can stop this style of play to a great extent. Yale's plays are not tricky. They are sound fundamental plays built upon power and team work. Now it is interesting to note that, with the excepting of Purdue, which not met Harvard before Coach Horween's team has struck its stride, no team has raised havoc with Harvard's forward wall through the medium of straight line football. Dartmouth ran wild around...
...story of the Harvard-Yale football series is the tale of the ebb and flood of two great tides of victory, broken only by occasional pauses. From 1876 to 1908, Yale was riding on the crest of the wave of triumph, sweeping all Harvard elevens before her with relentless power. In 1908 the tide turned, and although the Crimson victory in that year was followed by a Yale win in 1909, Harvard was launched on her triumphant march under the headship of Percy D. Haughton '90, the coach who led the Crimson forces out of the football doldrums...
Under Haughton's leadership the Harvard elevens became incarnations of smooth power and merciless efficiency that crushed all opposition. Evolving a complicated system of hidden ball plays, which were revolutionary in American football, Haughton uncovered the system which was the envy and despair of every coach in the country. Even after his coup in the 1908 encounter, it was four years before he scored over Yale, but minor victories came thick before this...