Word: weakest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...defeating Cornell on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon by a score of 6 to 0 the University association football team secured its first victory in the intercollegiate series. The team showed better form than ever before this season; the work of the forwards was noticeably improved, the backfield being the weakest part of the line...
...hand, Dartmouth comes to Cambridge backed by 1500 supporters and a record far better than the University team can show. Dartmouth men cannot be blamed for believing that a team which evidently played far better hall against Princeton than did Harvard, especially in the line where Harvard was the weakest, will have an even chance against the Harvard team. Thus it can be seen that in every way Harvard will have to exert its utmost to win this afternoon, and that the result of this game will do much toward forming an opinion of the great battle scheduled for next...
...unimportant matters, however, to which it is hard to point directly, cases of petty exclusiveness arise which give the University the name of being far less democratic than it really is. Just as the strength of a chain is measured by its weakest link, so Harvard democracy is measured by its greatest snob. If the offenders would only take the trouble to look about, they would have little difficulty in finding many people and things connected with the College community as a whole which they might well be proud, instead of too proud, to associate with. The more thoroughly...
Never was the truth of the adage that a chain is as strong as its weakest link more conclusively demonstrated than on Saturday afternoon on Yale field. Except for a few minutes in the third period, the University team outplayed its opponents, but in spite of this, misplays blighted Harvard's hopes when they were highest. These mistakes showed the weak links in the chain which gave way under the strain...
...fill the vacancy caused by the graduation of Little and Goddard. B. D. Hodges '11 will be the mainstay of the team in the hammer-throw. Parker, Douglas, and Cable and Batchelder of the 1913 team, will also be developed by Coach Quinn. The pole-vault will be the weakest department of the field events, since no men will be available who can clear over 11 feet...