Word: rival
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gave for this was that out of the ten games played, the University team won seven--a better showing than either Yale or Princeton made. Thirty-two goals were scored by the University, as compared with a total of ten scored by her opponents, and in five games no rival seven made a goal. The University team also defeated the Dartmouth team, which beat both Princeton and Yale. This alone entitles it to an excellent claim to the championship. In the rating of the college teams all these things were considered...
...University in the feature bouts of the tournaments held last night in the Union. His opponent in the boxing, G. K. Noble '17, showed himself a hard fighter, however, and the match furnished plenty of excitement to the large crowd in attendance. In the three rounds Snow knocked his rival down twice, and forced the fighting during the entire bout...
...opening of the Dartmouth winter carnival at Hanover this evening. The annual mid-winter celebration this year will be the most extensive ever held and the biggest social event in the history of the college. If the pretentious plans of the Outing Club are carried through the carnival will rival those which were held at Montreal before the war began. Every fraternity is to have a house party and all accommodations in Hanover and vicinity have been engaged weeks ahead...
...obviously impossible to select a championship team for any section. The game calls for too much physically from its players to make it possible to stage a sufficient number of games to decide a football championship. Players who have put forth all that they could muster against a traditional rival might show up stale against an inferior football team a week later. Certain games call for the supreme effort; others are merely football games to fill in a schedule. --The Outlook...
...ball very well. Harvard's line play, from tackle to tackle, was superb. The two ends, Coolidge and Harte, did fine work on attack and defence. They were good, if not brilliant, on downfield work, and did acceptably, if not brilliantly, in protecting their wings. All things considered, the rival lines had pretty much of an even break of it. The Harvard backfield, aside from kicking, was superior to the Princeton backfield. Harvard did her share of ballchanging and thimble-rigging on attack, but found her most consistent gains arising from straightaway thrusts and sharp slants. Wheeler and Sweetser...