Word: strong
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Daly went with the team and will probably play in the first half. Except for Boal, Reid and Parker, therefore, the whole squad is in condition to play. Although West Point does not seem to have as good a team as in previous years, it will be the first strong one Harvard has met this season, and the game will be some criterion of the ability of the eleven...
Charles Pratt Strong Scholarship -- H. G. Wyer...
...short halves which were played yesterday, the first eleven scored three times. In the first half, the second kicked off to Daly, who ran the length of the field for a touchdown. The rest of the half was devoted to line bucking, but, owing to the strong defense of the second eleven, which succeeded in holding the first on the fifteen-yard line, there was no more scoring. In the second half, the first scored twice by line plunging, Ellis and Warren carrying the ball over the line...
...defeated Amherst yesterday by the score of 41 to 0. Amherst was completely outclassed in every point of the game and at no time was able to gam any ground. But the Harvard team, although the changing line-up gave twenty-three men a chance to play, was so strong on the offensive and employed such effective team-play that Amherst did not once secure the ball on downs. As four touchdowns in the first half proved that the game was only a question of score, line-plays alone were used, in the second half, to give the forwards...
...second eleven, Burnett again played a strong game and was the one steady point in the line. In offensive work, however, the second was unable to make any gains. Even punting was of no avail, for the backs of the first usually eluded the second's ends and ran back to the place from which the ball was kicked...