Word: tested
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...linemen know what it means to play through 60 minutes of hard, damaging work. Up to the Princeton game the team was distinctly an unknown quantity, but today the graduates of Harvard, the public and the coaches realize that they have an eleven which has been put to the test, and even with many of the breaks against them, were not found wanting...
...Tufts defeat showed that the University line needed to be greatly strengthened and this the coaches proceeded to do. The first test of the remade team came in the game with North Carolina. The University scored three touchdowns and held the Southerners scoreless, winning 21 to 0. The game showed that the hard work of the weeks before had borne fruit, and with Coach Haughton able to be at practice regularly from that time on, the team began to find itself. Massachusetts Agriculture College was overwhelmed, 47 to 0, on October 21, and this victory seemed to instill confidence...
...general the examination was fairly satisfactory. Certainly it showed a considerable improvement over the similar test of last year. One man got a gross total of 12 points on his paper, three or four others received less than 20 and not a few had under 30. However, as the figures show, the class as a whole knew more than half of the questions which is not so bad in these days of sporting page literature. Bowdoin Orient...
...test for Harvard should be one to indicate the final possibilities of the team. Cornell has a slight advantage in rush line weight and possibly a little more because of seasoned linemen. In Shiverick the Cornellians have a kicken whose 1915 performance was phenomenal but one which he has not repeated...
...country, he would have been not so ready to state universally that all results had been in favor of Wilson. Results have varied with the section of the country, pretty much as those who are somewhat wiser than your correspondent of yesterday realize they must vary when the final test comes. No all-embracing Wilson victory may be postulated, no, not even by Mr. Lazarus...