Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yale Line of "Tremendous Strength...
...Haughton's problem was to beat a veteran cloven, familiar with Harvard's style of play, with an inexperienced eleven, having only a second-hand knowledge of Princeton's tactics. Tufts had beaten Tufts the following week, 3 to 0. On the strength of that record Princeton should have been the favorite. Man of man, the advantage in weight, experience and skill was undoubtedly with Princeton as it was in the contest a year ago. But the betting odds told another story. They favored Harvard--and logically. For past experience supported the assumption that the Harvard coaches would be able...
...seen in Eastern football this season. Although neither team was able to show its entire offensive hand with the Yale games one and two weeks away, the victory of the University eleven, by the narrow margin of a single field goal, was an accurate indication of the relative strength of the two teams...
...Those Princeton men would make good choir singers, judging by the strength of their lungs. I never heard cheering like that...
Showing a versatile attack and an impregnable defence, Brown was able to decisively defeat Yale Saturday by a 21 to 6 score. But this defeat cannot be regarded as a just criterion of Yale's true strength, for the latter team, unwilling to risk its regulars, used eighteen players in the contest. These second-string men, however, were no match for the fast Brown aggregation, when open play was started...