Word: successful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...after a two years' break with Yale, the five year agreement was signed, and W. Cameron Forbes took charge of Harvard Football, after one of the most unsuccessful seasons Harvard has ever known. To him is due much of the credit for Harvard's success during the five years that followed. Out of dissension and discord he produced concord and the well defined system of coaching and training which has brought Harvard to victory. Instead of having under him a large number of miscellaneous coaches, he established various departments each of which had a responsible man in charge, on whom...
...played with them. The previous ten years had been disastrous to Harvard football. There were four consecutive defeats by Yale, four consecutive defeats by Princeton, three consecutive defeats by Pennsylvania. This did not seem a natural outcome of existing conditions as the situation seemed to present every element of success for Harvard--plenty of opportunity, plenty of coaches, plenty of candidates and plenty of enthusiasm, besides the favorable attitude of the University authorities...
...eleven was its kicking game, which was to my mind the most highly perfected that any team has ever had. This, the simplicity of the plays, the enthusiasm of the college, and particularly the careful way in which the eleven was handled were the causes of the success...
...view of the success of the undergraduate cheering section, I suggest the formation of a graduate cheering section. Those who remember the cheering of the graduates under Mr. Wendell's leadership at the old Tree exercises will realize what an addition this would be to organized enthusiasm. To these two cheering sections respectively the members of the first two classes would be entitled to one ticket apiece. Tickets would be non-transferable. Men taking advantage of the, privilege of applying for these seats should not be entitled to further application...
...warmly interested in the establishment of the Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, and the success of the efforts to secure an adequate financial basis for this publication was entirely due to him. He laid the project before his classmates, and by his enthusiasm roused their interest to such a pitch that they determined to make it a class affair, with the result that the whole of the amount required came to the University as the gift of the Class of 1856. He also served for several years on the editorial committee of the Studies and was a frequent contributor...