Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...long hour the gridiron warriors of Harvard and Princeton fought a battle royal on Saturday afternoon. The unexpected strength of Princeton's of fence appeared in the very first plays and convinced the Crimson supporters that the supposed superiority of Harvard was too slight to assure victory. After a first half to nervous excitement, out team showed the results of Haughton's coaching and gained victory by outwitting as well as outrushing their opponents...
...Harvard or Yale. It is not solely because it is a Princeton team that members of this university have confidence in it; it is largely by reason of the absolute conviction that the team this year is decidedly above the average in ability and that it can use its strength and show to the football world that it deserves to receive first honors this season...
...comparison with the best of past years. Those false prophets that cried all too soon that this year, with Mahan absent and the organization of 1915 broken, would be a year of defeats now lack honor in their own country. After the Cornell triumph the Crimson regained its traditional strength, and a Harvard team that thinks only in terms of victory takes the field today...
Princeton has had luck in many games of past years, not only against Harvard but against other teams. Not zoological mascots, nor prayers, nor beautiful New Jerseyites, nor mystic rights to the full moon, can break the strength of Harvard. The Crimson team goes into the game with fingers uncrossed, as her goal line will remain when the game is over...
...undoubtedly the weakest team the University, has opposed this year and had not recovered from its defeat by Dartmouth the week before, but the fact that it was able to make only one first down, which was disallowed owing to a penalty, indicated that the strength of the Crimson line had been enormously increased. It was only natural that the University should roll up a large score but what was significant was that three of the seven touchdowns were made by the substitutes in the second half...