Word: ties
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Tie game...
...teams, then, are very closely matched. Harvard has better team play; Yale, contrary to the usual rule, has the better individual players. Considering that one advantage pretty nearly offsets the other, a tie game would be a possibility but for one fact. Yale is far superior in kicking. This means a great deal, for the game may be largely a kicking one. Brewer is by no means the poor punter he has been considered for the past month, but he cannot punt as Butterworth does. Moreover, there is nobody on the Harvard team who can be relied upon to kick...
...unreasonable to place the chances of the game on this one circumstance, but the facts bear out such a judgment. The teams are so evenly matched in ordinary play that, leaving the punting out of consideration, they are likely not to score at all, or else to play a tie game. Accordingly, the side which is stronger in punting will resort to it constantly, and in that way force the other side to punt. The result will be that eventually the side which punts best will gain solely on exchange of kicks and finally score...
Below is the list of entries for the road race next Monday. Each contestant will be given a small map of the course to tie on his handle-bars...
...Mumford '96, won yesterday afternoon, on the thirty-fourth move, the last game in the tie for fourth place in the final round...