Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Haven by a 10 to 0 score. In attack, Virginia depends on Sparr's swift line smashes on Berkeley's shifty end runs, and no Thurman's long punts and dropkicks. So far the team has no showed a disposition toward the deceptive play for it has found speed, strength, and alertness quite sufficient for victory...
Captain Mahan will do the punting and offers a good threat to the effectiveness of Thurman's punting, and with Willcox should show the southerners something in the way of fast and tricky open-field running. Whether or not the Harvard line will prove of sufficient strength to let King and Whitney get in some effective line-plunging, remains to be seen. Whichever way the situation is regarded, the University eleven is today in serious danger of meeting a tartar...
Princeton meets Lafayette. The latter's record has not been such as to indicate a strong opposition to Princeton's well-known defensive strength. Lafayette has defeated Muhlenberg and Ursinus losing to Washington and Jefferson. Cornell should be able to defeat Buck nell without much trouble. The former's early season schedule has not been a difficult one and as a result we will have received no real test before the Harvard game next Saturday...
...present Carlisle record shows one victory, one tie, and one defeat, and as little is yet known of their opponents strength, no definite basis for an estimate of their own power can accurately be made. However, under a new and untried coaching system, and with an almost entirely "green" team, it can confidently be prophesied that today's game will not be a repetition of the 1911 result...
...immediately precede the game with Williams. Cornell has heavy team and the coaches expect much of it, though it has shown but little speed. Williams comes with an entirely different team from that which was beaten last week, with the result that little can be said as to its strength...