Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale's ends are the weakest part of the Jones machine this season. Before the Harvard game Princeton was supposed to be weak in this respect, but Lea and Moeser were strong against the Crimson and seem to have the edge over their Yale rivals...
...yesterday, in preparation for the Harvard game. One of the main features of the practice was a long forward passing drill. The Brown eleven is evidently expecting to use the aerial attack, which was so successful against Boston University last week, with even more effect against Harvard's admittedly weak forward pass defense...
...soggy field kept the Harvard riders down to eight tallies, after they had completely punctured the Tiger defense, which was made weak with the loss of Captain Clothier. R. A. Pinkerton '26, though playing at back, scored most of the tallies for the University four, and was the individual star of the game. Alexander Shaw '28 played a splendid offensive game at number two, scoring three goals, and R. P. Gibb '29, sharing number one with J. H. Remick '29, showed marked improvement. Erdman scored the only goal for Princeton...
Events in China which have been cloaked in obscurity for some months took on an intelligible significance last week. Two happenings of major interest: 1) the Nine-Power Customs Conference* assembled at Peking, seat of the present weak Chinese National Government; 2) the great warlord, or "Super-Tuchun," Wu Pei-fu, emerged from an enforced retirement and appeared at Hankow as "Commander-in-Chief of the Central Provinces"-an alliance which he has apparently patched up by intrigue and which he claims leagues about him "14 of China's 18 provinces...
...Peking, General Feng Yu-hsiang became so agitated at the comeback of Super-Tuchun Wu, whom he "betrayed" last year, that he was reported upon the point of offering to unite his strength once more with Wu against Chang. This naturally makes things highly interesting for the weak Peking "Government of China," which is entertaining the Customs Conference and which is supposed to be "protected" by Feng...