Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great advantage of course lies in beginning work before the middle of September. Then as most of the men are upper classmen whose play and positions are comparatively well known, the team is soon permanently picked out, and an almost faultless team play results. Give Harvard, with her superior material, such foot-ball advantages as these, and our eleven would be the best in the country. To these add scientific coaching such as the Yale eleven gets, -coaching that would enable us to take our largest and best men and teach them the game, instead of taking what material...
...season with our team. No important games have as yet been played, and the judgment formed by the team of its strength from these games is an erroneous one. It is not at all strange that in practice against an inferior team, individuality is more strongly apparent in the superior team, than when it is compelled to play as a unit so as to win. Thus it is that individual players on our team are too apt to disregard the other members of the eleven in their practice, and thus in an important game where combined strength would succeed...
...touch down, or, by the new method of counting, 19 points to 8 points. The game was closer than the scores would indicate. Wesleyan kept the ball in Harvard's half of the field most of the time, and lost the game rather by costly errors than by the superior playing of Harvard. There was little passing and few runs were made. The Harvard team in general tackled well ; their rushers blocked well, particularly in the middle of the line ; the goal kicking was good ; but there was a good deal of bad fumbling at one time or another. Austin...
...played by the Wesleyan team against Harvard cannot be compared with any game which it has played against us. The Wesleyan team has improved astonishingly since it has played us. The kicking of the half-backs was way above average, while the rush line is made up of some superior materials. The determined and business-like way in which the Wesleyan team went to work at the beginning of the game was probably entirely unexpected by Harvard, and consequently made the Harvard team seem at first weaker than it really was. And then, too, it must be borne in mind...
...unsupported opinion of one. A man who follows this method will find his collegiate course a much more profitable one, than he who sacrifices all for the coveted 'marks.' He may even make frequent failures in the class-room where the other makes none and yet be his superior at the end of four years in all that equips a man for the stern realities that await him in life's battle...