Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard and Brown in foothall. In many ways it was the most satisfactory game of the season, not because Harvard made her this year's record in number of points won, but because the eleven was given an excellent test of its defensive work. Brown displayed strong aggressive qualities, stronger, perhaps, than that shown by any other of the visiting teams. This unexpected strength was a surprise, and Harvard was not fully prepared to meet it. Brown started with the ball and chiefly through the telling work of Millard, pushed it quickly down to the 25 yard line. At this...
...sight of ten coachers on Jarvis Field yesterday was an unusual one for Harvard. Yet it marks a change in football methods which has been going on for several years. Graduates are beginning to feel an interest in the eleven, and even a responsibility, and the University is the stronger for their loyalty...
...ninety-five eleven is still very weak, and unless heavier and stronger material is soon brought out nothing much can be expected of the team. Since the last call for candidates a few more men have come out, but the general need for larger men is still the same. It is planned to play some game each day. In the work yesterday against ninety-six, the playing was very ragged and irregular, good team work lacking at nearly all times. It is earnestly hoped that more candidates will soon come out in order that all available material may be tried...
Following is a brief criticism of the men individually, and a table of their weights and ages. They are decidedly a young crew, but stronger than most freshman crews...
...Stronger efforts should be made by the graduates of both schools who are here in college to interest in Harvard their former school mates. Men in a preparatory school know singularly little about the colleges for which they are fitting, to say nothing of colleges for which they are not sitting, There is an excellent chance for some loyal graduates to do good work, not only for Harvard, but for Phillips Exeter and Phillips Andover themselves by using their personal influence among the students to interest and instruct them in the advantages which Harvard offers. Yet there is another...