Word: strength
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Haven on Saturday, the Harvard eleven after fighting heroically to the last ditch against a team vastly superior in strength of attack and general knowledge of football, was defeated by Yale 12 to 0. One touchdown was scored in each half, the first after Yale in twenty-eight minutes of actual play had three times rushed the ball nearly half the length of the field, against an increasingly stubborn defense; the second after a blocked kick by Harvard late in the second half. Yale was decisively superior in the power and unity of her attack, strong on defense...
...fierce attack, thwarted again and again by a fiercer defense, was each time renewed with an increased intensity that made it finally irresistible. On the defense, Yale's play was as determined and effective as Harvard's, but less conspicuous because fully expected, while Harvard's defensive strength stood out because of the record of previous games as a complete surprise. Neither team gained much ground on trick plays and gains by quarterback runs were with one or two exceptions limited to two or three yards each...
...uncertainty of footing on a slippery field. In the second half, by the hardest kind of individual work and an occasional welding together into something like effective team play the eleven made short but consistent gains. The defense, excellent throughout except in kick formations, taxed Yale's superior offensive strength to the limit till the last play of the game, and was, unexpectedly, the redeeming feature of the team's play. Against opponents of uniformly greater experience the line men played a far better game than they were believed to be capable of; and when Yale's powerful mass plays...
Yale defeated Princeton in football on Saturday in a hard-fought game by the score of 12-0. Yale's superiority lay in the unity of her attack and the strength of her line, as well as in the excellent punting of Hoyt...
...minute scrimmage between the first and second elevens the first eleven was able to score only one touchdown. This was owing to the exceptional strength with which the second team played the work of Carr, Pierce and Upham being especially good. For the first time in several weeks Derby was in the line-up, playing at right tackle on the first team where he did some excellent work in rushing the ball...