Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Wood was a member of the Technology nine of last year. He has played shortstop but is trying for second base. He is a fine fielder and base runner but is weak at the bat. He is a good acquisition of the team...
...they ran around the end. Having the same men they did better this year, and learned that they were better adapted, considering themselves and the rush lines they were to meet, to run around the end than to try the inside so often. Yale's half-backs were the weak point in the team, and consequently were not used until the game was partly played and the general strength of the opposing team ascertained. Harvard's half-backs were the strongest and were used the most. Being larger and heavier men they ran through the end-and-tackle hole rather...
...several years successfully played against Princeton and Columbia, the old-fashioned game, on the suggestion of Harvard men adopted the new style. In that year the Harvard team who had had the advantage of two or three years experience, found it an easy task to vanquish the Yale team, weak from lack of experience. I have a faint remembrance now, of the general feeling of mortification among the students because of that crushing defeat, and the determination to retrieve the next season. How apt pupils they were is shown by the fact that since that time Harvard has never defeated...
Every man on the Harvard team worked hard, but our ends were no ticeably weak in letting the Princeton's men run around them. Boyden's work for a man who has played but a few times in his position was remarkable and is deserving of great praise. Considering the loss of our captain in so early a stage of the game, the team held together very well under Harding. The men must not be too much elated over this game, however, for Yale has a heavier rush line than Princeton and only hard work and strict attention...
...Bulletin Elm," at Princeton, has grown weak from old age and is shortly to be cut down...