Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will play the third game of its schedule this afternoon at 4 o'clock with the Holy Cross second team at Worcester. The Holy Cross team defeated the Mechanicsville Medical Association last Saturday by a score of 6 to 3 in its only game of the season and is stronger than the team which was defeated last year by the second nine by a score of 4 to 1. The Harvard team has been showing steady improvement lately...
...spite of recent changes in the defense the University team plays well together. As the offense has played together throughout the season it has developed concerted team work and is, on the whole, stronger than the defense, which has been together but a short time. Until recently the playing has been rather ragged, but during the past week marked improvement has been shown. The men are slightly slow both in starting and turning, but this is counterbalanced by accurate shooting and fast skating. Individually the players are fast for heavy men. Callaway and Wilder, the most experienced members...
...others are habitually guilty of them." The common justification offered for these "hateful conditions," President Eliot says, is that football is a fight and that its strategy and ethics are those of war. New tricks are always desirable as surprises; the weaker man is the legitimate prey of the stronger. "One should always try to discover the weakest man in the opponent's line, as, for example, the man most recently injured, and attack him again and again. If a man, by repeated blows about the head and particularly on the jaw, has been visibly dazed...
...University basketball team will play Andover at 4 o'clock this afternoon in the Hemenway Gymnasium. As Andover has played few of the stronger college teams it is difficult to judge the outcome of the game. The showing of the University team against Brown on Thursday was very encouraging...
...following back. In this respect the second team outclassed the first and prevented several goals by their fast work. Of the first team defense Foster was fairly effective, but Newhall played too far out from his position and was weak in body-checking. The second team defense was stronger than at any previous time this year and had little difficulty in stopping the advance of the opposing forwards. R. S. Hardy '01 and Brackett the goal-keeper of the Brookline team played on the second team...