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...superior physical training which the Harvard players have undergone told against Cornell as it did against Brown; but in both games, after the first half had been closely contested, the men were quick to take advantage of their opponent's weakness and ran up the score with a vim that was gratifying to every Harvard man present...
...most pleasing feature of the game was its freeness from slugging, and unnecessarily hard tackling. The men on both sides played with a vim, but nothing was done to mar the game. Only one man was obliged to leave the game and that was Chauncey, Yale's star halfback, who was injured by coming in contact with another player...
...chief excellence of the Harvard crew is the body work; for in both time and blade-work Yale excels. Where Harvard men may lay their hopes of their crew is in that splendid dash and vim and grit in which the crimson men go at their work. In the slower stroke Yale rows far the easier, more graceful stroke. But when they come to "hit up" the stroke to 36 and 37, as in the fourmile time row on Saturday, that superb finish vanishes. The time of that fourmile row was 21m. 10s., just one minute slower than the Thames...
...varsity practice, on Jarvis yesterday afternoon, was very erratic and on the whole was not very encouraging. There were so many men either laid off from injuries or playing in a lamed condition that the play was anything but quick and full of vim as it should have been. The coaching was done by Cumnock, Cranston, Lee, Crosby and Lathrop, Comnock and Cranston paying special attention to the centre men, Lee to the halves and Crosby to the ends. Perry, L. S. was referee and Crosby '91 umpired. Two thirty minute halves were played, the elevens lining up as follows...
...team started out with so much vim and snap that the Williams men seemed as nothing before the Harvard rushers...