Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team is in good shape and has greatly improved on the defense, in which it has been noticeably weak throughout the season...
...inexperienced Crimson soccer team lost its first league game Saturday to Pennsylvania at Philadelphia 5 to 0. The weak forward line was helpless before the veteran Pennsylvania defense, while the Crimson backs were unable to cope with the home team's attack...
Dunker is expected on Soldiers Field any day. He is only being held at the Stillman Infirmary until a negative culture can be taken. The disease has naturally left him in a weak condition and it is doubtful if he even dons a uniform before the middle of next week. It was hoped, when he first developed diphtheria, that he would be able to take part in the Dartmouth game, but that seems almost impossible...
...Coach T. A. D. Jones will iron out many of the wrinkles in the Eli football problems that have been brought to surface in the games with North Carolina and Georgia. Coach Woodruff, in his statement after the game to the Yale Daily News maintains also that Yale is weak against a strong forward passing game. This does not quite seem to follow from the Georgia game, since out of seventeen attempted passes the Georgians completed but six, while one was intercepted and the others failed...
Georgia players, in commenting upon the playing of the Eli linesmen, declared that Bingham and Luman on the ends. Captain Lovejoy at center and Joss at tackle, played best against them, bearing out, the opinion that the Blue tackles and guards in general are weak, Luman and Lovejoy were especially praised, while Bingham was characterized by the Southerners as a good man but lacking in experience...