Word: slow
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Tufts' play was slow and lacked life. Her work was done by Stover. Sherwin, Gradner and Waters played well for Harvard...
...rush line the ends are too slow and their tackling is faulty; in fact this latter remark might be applied to the whole team. The eleven does not tackle well. The line is very much crippled by the loss of their center and it looks as if this were going to be a difficult position to fill...
...line as a whole is slow to get through, and large holes are constantly made in it, especially through the center. There is a lack of sump in the work of the men, and they waste a good deal of energy sparring with each other. The ends tackle fairly well, but allow themselves to be blocked off. Newell and Weed are doing good work; Newell is rushing well and tackling in his old form. Weed tackles well, but attempts to cover too much ground...
...team tackle surely and effectively. The work of the rush line can also be made more effective; in the main the play of the rushers is steady, but occasionally they allow the opposing line to make a bad hole, and when this does occur they are a little slow in settling down to effective work again. There were some pretty exhibitions of blocking in Saturday's game, but the men do not seem to have acquired the knack of habitually blocking. It is early in the season, of course, to expect this; but Yale teams have a way of blocking...
...Dowd hit to right centre for three bases and came in on Sexton's little grounder in front of the plate. The score was now nine all. Harvard failed to score in the seventh. In the eighth Brown got two more runs. Messer made a hit. Hubbard hit a slow grounder along the fist base line which Bates picked up; he threw wild to first, however, and Messer scored, Hubbard taking third. Hubbard came in on Upton's muff at the plate of Bates' throw. In Harvard's half of the eighth Dean got his base on balls, stole second...