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...before the Pennsylvania game. With almost all the regular men on the University eleven, it was able in a thirty minute line-up to score only once against a weak second team, and was in turn scored upon. The line charged too high and on the defense was almost powerless. Except in the last four or five minutes, there was an absence of fight so that long gains were impossible. The first twenty minutes of scrimmage practice was secret...
...very clearly, what its recent work in practice has indicated; the absolute lack of fight. In the first half the Indians had the University team at their mercy, and ran the ball 70 yards without a single failure to make first down, the defense, throughout the game, was utterly powerless either to analyze or to stop Carlisle's advance with the ball. Double and delayed passes, quarterback runs, straight mass plays through tackle, varied by different wing shift formations, were all in turn, used most successfully in bending back the Harvard line. The one reliable part of the defense...
...HAVEN, CONN., Sept., 20.--The practice of the university eleven this afternoon was very short, but the 15 minutes line-up against the scrub team developed some very fast and satisfactory playing. The scrub team was powerless to stop the rapid plays of the university team and two touchdowns were scored with comparitive case...
...week and showed what they could do when playing together. The plays were run off with a great deal more precision than at any time before, the line held unusually firm, and the whole team got into every play in such a way that the second eleven was powerless to stop them...
...found in "Hamlet" is the disaster, not of wickedness, but of virtue impotent and inactive. Hamlet, although in many ways a splendid character is possessed, in the words of a French critic of note, of "a will which is strongly deemed to have the willing power, but which is powerless to furnish itself with motive for the deed." In speaking of the New Testament, John Ruskin has said what may be well applied to the death of the hero of the play, that the most soul-stirring picture drawn by the Savior is the terrible condemnation of the rejected...