Word: strengths
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first scheduled games, those with Williams and Bowdoin, which were won by the scores of 20-0 and 24-0 respectively, presented good opportunities for trying the relative strength of various plays. As a whole, both of these games were encouraging, as the 'Varsity, with the exception of general looseness of play, developed promising form for so early in the season. Dartmouth proved less easy, as they were beaten only 13-0, and prevented Harvard from scoring in the first half. In this game, more than in any of the following ones, Harvard showed her knowledge of the game...
...Soldiers Field next Saturday with an intense appreciation that then and there is the chance of a college life-time. If therefore a song, or a series of songs, can do even a little to arouse a feeling that the game must be won no matter what the strength of the opponent's eleven, we think that the publication is justified. We regret, deeply, however, that it has proved offensive to heads of the University to whom the undergraduates owe so much...
...games early in the season gave little chance for judging the strength of the team because of the constant changes in the line-up. The Brown game showed Yale's lamentable weakness in defense and also her strength in straight-away offensive football. During the week following the game with Brown the work was confined to strengthening the line and the whole defensive play. The result of this was encouragingly apparent in the Carlisle Indian game. Yale's defense was much stronger but still far from perfect. The week before the West Point contest was used in practicing a method...
With the signal defeat of Brown last Saturday the strength of Pennsylvania's team this year has been proved beyond a doubt to be unusually great, and disregarding the possibility of a "slump" or the handicap of an unusual number of injuries to the men, it is the general opinion that the game with Harvard will be a hard fought...
...weeks with its present make up and has that advantage over the other crews. Biddle is a good stroke, and Perkins at 3 backs him up with a powerful oar. Brown, No. 2, is rowing a bit roughly and Wood at bow does not seem to use all his strength to advantage. The chief faults of the crew are lack of leg drive and slowness in shooting the hand away on the recover...