Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...signals and formations with opponents who are not also perfectly familiar with them. We are very confident that the policy of keeping 'varsity men off the freshman eleven will prove a wise one. While the teams are not likely to be quite as heavy as usual, there is every reason to expect more interesting playing and a game that is generally better planned and better executed than what we have been accustomed to in former Harvard-Yale freshman games...
...opportunity to put ourselves in a position to lay undisputed title to the championship; it will justify the continuance of a system of training which in many respects has proved eminently desirable. Moreover, two outside colleges, - Pennsylvania and Princeton, - are awaiting the result with an interest which we have reason to believe is scarcely less intense than...
...better circumstances, in spite of the list of veteran players, than the Harvard team. On the day that Harvard won from Cornell by the score of 22 to 12, Yale defeated West Point 12 to 5. A week later Yale scored but twelve points against Brown. There were two reasons for this poor showing. The veterans, feeling sure of their positions, saw no particular reason for playing hard; but the chief reason was that coaches had been rather scarce all the fall. Mr. Camp was especially missed. Hinkey was obliged to bear two burdens: that of captain, and that...
...conclusion, we welcome criticism and shall always be glad to give a reason for the faith that is in us. We do not like a certain kind of Sunday-School reading any better than Tom Bailey did, but we shall always welcome stories about persons who are all good and as they ought to be, when the stories are also good literature...
...these days when even those whose interest in the success of the eleven is most intense can not for obvious reasons know anything of the real chances of success or failure, it is of vital importance that every man strive to keep his spirits up and to show in every way possible his loyalty. Many circumstances have conspired this season to weaken the confidence of the College in the team's ability to win. The daily papers have contained startling accounts of Yale's strength, while by reason of the strict secrecy to which all the Harvard players have been...