Word: successful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...field, among these several new men who made a very creditable showing. Captain Kimball desire that every man who has played football or has the ability to do so, should begin practice at once, as a large number of candidates in strict training is indispensable to success. This was proved by our experience of last fall, when several men were taken on the regular team from the second eleven...
...head woke" can be used as well as muscle, and so that the team shall be as a unit, ready to meet any emergency that [may rise while playing-if, in other words, we play a "scientific game" -the result will be most favorable to our chances of final success...
...year Harvard has had phenomenal players -players who head the record lists and yet, as regularly as the sunrises, defeat has been our lot. There has been far too much brilliant individual playing and far too little strong team play, and it is good steady team play that brings success. What we want now is to win something. sometime, somewhere. the only thing we have to be grateful for during this last year is that there were no other championships that we could lose to Yale...
...loose both the race with Yale and the base-ball championship seemed very hard, especially as we left college feeling reasonable sure of the latter. Our rivals at Yale have received a success such as they seldom achieve, and of which they are deservedly proud...
...were won on their merits. Each event was closely and strongly contested with nearly as much honor accruing to the vanquished as to the victors. Let us hope that these defeats will but stimulate our teams to renewed exertions in the future, that when they next meet Yale, better success may crown their efforts...