Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Toronto showed remarkable skill in dodging and catching, but was less accurate in passing. The team used the Canadian style of play, the players advancing the ball in pairs, and passing when necessary from one side of the field to the other. This placed Toronto at a disadvantage when shooting, as the Harvard defence effectively covered its goal, blocking nearly every attempt to score...
...elaborately constructed rack whereon are hung a few, sometimes effective jokes. "The Adventure of the Young man and the Spasmodic Lady" and "The Curious History of a Selfish Man" are immature and crude: one is exaggerated attempt at farce, the other a sort of tragic sketch handled without skill. "The Three Worlds" ruins by a most clumsy climax a sketch of power...
...last seven years Harvard teams have shown skill in coaching and material which would have been enough, if properly applied, to give us our proportion of winning teams. And yet in that time we have had only two victories over Yale, although we have won six successive games with Pennsylvania. This fact proves conclusively that the direction of the energy, and not the lack of skill or material, has been the cause of Harvard's bad showing...
...have appointed a committee with the primary object of seeking out the skill and experience and intelligence existing in Harvard football men and of directing it on the University team so that we can make at least an intelligent effort towards getting victory every year. This committee will operate in an advisory capacity rather than in an executive one. It will lay out a system and direct the policy, but will not undertake to interfere with the coach or the coaching system, which will remain substantially as in the past...
Distinctly the best contribution is the poem on the opening page, "We are '07." Some metrical skill is employed in the service of an ingenious parody, re-enforced by a clever turn at the end; and the whole has what characterizes the best humor, an underdrift of criticism...