Word: strength
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Saturday, which was won with comparative ease by the score of 24-5. Although scored upon the first time this season, the 'Varsity simply outclassed their opponents in straightforward football, being weak in but one particular, namely, punting. Cornell's score was not the result of any superior strength either in the line or among the backs, but of one of those opportunities which, however unevenly two teams may be matched, are always presented through instances of constantly recurring carelessness. In this particular case it proved to be a muffed punt by Dibblee on his 15 yard line which enabled...
...first class game, which takes place on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock, promises to be closely contested. From the strength of the two lines it seems likely that there will be little scoring, and that the team which can score twice will...
...eleven has not played any regular games this fall so that it is difficult to gauge its real strength with any exactness. The practice has consisted almost entirely of signal practice and scrub games against the substitutes and other class teams. The line is fairly heavy for a class team and the men are good individually, but they do not play well together. The backs are heavy but slow in starting, and the interference is not as compact as it should...
...score of 22 to 0, proved to be the most uninteresting game that the eleven has played this season. The team as a whole played listlessly, and it may be said indifferently at times; and though four touchdowns were scored, they were made simply on Harvard's superior strength and were far from being the result of fast, aggressive playing. Judging from the spirit prevalent throughout the game, the men were evidently not playing their best, nor trying to, and taken after the excellent showing of last week against Brown, such a reaction is at least unwarrantable. Throughout the game...
...Sophomore eleven showed an unusual development of strength for a light weight team, in their game with Hopkinson yesterday, which they won by a score...