Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...particularly active this fall with the Democratic Club's successful effort on the stump and the Republican Club's mast meeting and torchlight parade. The results of all the straw votes taken in the different colleges cannot be fashioned into a prophecy of today's result. Yet the apparent strength of Wilson in the Middle West in borne out by the vote of the colleges in that district. The Eastern universities gave Hughes a comfortable margin with one exception, which is Columbia. The latter contains such a great mass of cosmopolitan and representative students that the closeness of Columbia...
Bucknell proved no match for Princeton, which won by the score of 42 to 0. In fact, it was due to Princeton's carelessness rather than to Bucknell's strength that the score was not larger. Princeton scored six touchdowns and kicked all the goals and pressed its opponents throughout the entire game...
Colgate made 18 first downs during the game to Yale's 11, and successfully accomplished eight out of 16 forward passes, but most of the advantage gained by this great offensive strength was lost because of penalties. The Hamilton eleven was penalized for a total of 95 yards. Yale's defence on its own goal line was a very different thing from its defence in the middle of the field and at the very beginning of the game the Blue team held its opponents for four downs in the shadow of the goal posts...
...football game and a clean-cut victory in the relay race the first year men won for their class its numerals on the cup in the Technology Union as well as the privilege of smoking class pipes. Only in the tug-of-war did the sophomores show strength enough to overcome the enthusiasm of the freshmen. In that event the second year men succeeded in pulling their opponents over the mark two consecutive times...
Little is known of the strength of the Cornell squad. With the exception of Captain Windnagle and Boynton, the Cornell team is practically untried, but will probably live up to the reputation made by past teams...