Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...splendid victory at Seabright the season recorded three serious reversals for Williams, as he was beaten in the Davis cup matches by Wilding, 7-5, 6-2, 6-3; and Brookes, 6-1, 6-2, 8-10, 6-3. Then at the time he should have displayed his greatest strength, Church mastered him for the intercollegiate honors after four sets...
Yale's well-rounded defense made possible a victory over Virginia. Six times the southerners marched down the field to within scoring distance, but the Yale line was always able to tighten up and hold the opponents from passing the goal-posts. Virginia's strength lay in swinging runs which balked the Yale ends. The play was nearly even during the second and fourth periods, but during the first and third periods Yale scored three touchdowns, one on a forward pass...
...outset of the football season predictions as to the relative strength of the various elevens are legion, but very few certain conclusions can be drawn as to the prowess of any squad which has been on the gridiron but two weeks. Every team on Harvard's schedule--except Michigan, who lost to its second team by one point--met its first opponent of the season Saturday and won by a safe margin...
...view of the fact that little is really known about the football strength of Bates, conjecture is in order. The following is taken from the Transcript...
...impressions as to the power of the University football team will be gleamed by those who witness the Bates game. A great deal has previously been printed in the newspapers from coast to coast about the relative merits of eastern and western football elevens. In these accounts Harvard's strength has been rated high enough to give any reader the impression that to win the football championship of the east we have only to trust to the ability of several individuals who were on the team last year. The CRIMSON believes that the thinking undergraduate will immediately discard these "doped...