Word: teamwork
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five positions left vacant by regulars ineligible to play because of their scholastic standing, five men from other house teams had to be drawn in to provide competition for the visiting Elis, after the latter had first acquiesced in this odd scheme. Besides thoroughly breaking up the teamwork of the Winthrop team, this resort to material from other houses might easily have justified members of the next ranking full-strength house team in feeling that they should have had the chance to meet Yale...
Harvard's principal weakness exhibited in Saturday's 14-0 upset was the lack of spirit, and the poor coordination which the team displayed against the Bears' unified teamwork. The Crimson's serial attack was also lamentably weak, with only two passes completed out of the dozen attempted. Time after time the ball went spinning wide of the mark when a successful pass would have stemmed the Brown tide...
Every man on Team A has been working in close coordination since the second practice of the season. The only major substitution in the first string line was Casey for Hallowell at center in the Penn State game. The teamwork of the first string will not be disturbed when Crane starts in at Gundlach's berth tomorrow, since the new right guard has been practicing with the regulars for several weeks...
...against von Cramm. For the doubles, the Bouhana courts were slower than ever, after a heavy rain, but it made no difference to Allison & Van Ryn who have played abroad long enough to know all about soft French courts and slow French tennis balls.* Aided by superb teamwork and Prenn's double faults, they won what turned out to be the deciding match in straight sets?...
Potter, Oppenheimer, and Schwyzer were responsible for the three Harvard trys, while Meiklejohn scored on two penalty kicks, but the teamwork deserved more praise than any particular individual. Whitney and Watt showed some fine defensive work, particularly in the second half. Lomax was taken out at the beginning of the second half with an injured back...