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...Harvard has a good line, although yet to show its full strength, both offensively and defensively; a wonderful back-field, yet one which is powerless without support from the line, for there is neither a Wendell nor a Streit in the trio to gain a couple of yards when the two opposing lines are in a deadlock; a fair quarterback and fair kickers, and, lastly, a drop-kicker who full well realizes the responsibility of his work in the present style of game." L. WITHINGTON '11, in Boston Globe...
...ends, Wadsworth's sensational broken field runing and Minot's tremendous line-bucking were too formidable for the light Cadet team. Though by their plucky stands the Cadets managed to hold the Battery scoreless in the first half, toward the end of the game they weakened and were powerless before their opponents' consistent hammering...
...stop by the Princeton forward line, and the Princeton forward-line generally meant baker. The half ended with the score 0 to 0. In the second half, however, the Princeton rover proved too elusive, and dodged through the forward line time and again. The defence, unaided, proved also powerless to stop him, and through his efforts four goals were scored, three of which he made himself. As a whole the Yale team displayed the best game of its year against Princeton, and a fair estimate of its strength may be based upon...
...yard line. During most of this time the ball went back and forth in mid-field, neither side being able to score. Campbell got away three times for long runs but when the play approached the second team goal line, the defence stiffened, and the first team backs were powerless. Of the three times that the goal line was endangered, one chance to score was lost on a penalty, another on a poor forward pass, and the third time the second team took the ball on downs. After 20 minutes of play Storer caught a forward pass intended...
...Harvard men vote in Cambridge such a state of things could not long exist, for no city department would find it possible to maintain itself under conditions as existing. Being powerless at election times, we can do little or nothing...