Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reform is to affix some penalty to safety touchdowns. Against our team Columbia made ten safeties and Princeton seven, while in those contests Harvard did not make a single one; yet these safeties did not enter into the score to affect it in the slightest. Here, then, is the weak point in the rules, and here is where the reform must be made. It will be very difficult to propose any remedy which will be absolutely sure, and at the same time fair in every case...
Princeton defeated Columbia Saturday by a score of three goals and one touchdown to nothing. Columbia's playing was weak, although distinguished by the fine rushing and kicking of Morgan. On Princeton's side Haxall as usual excelled in kicking, while fine work was done in rushing and tackling by Peace. Princeton secured but two touchdowns, from only one of which a goal was kicked. The other two goals were kicked from the field by Haxall. Columbia touched down for safety five times...
...good deal of confidence in our team, though we feel that it has been much weakened by the loss of Camp. It is asserted positively that he will be unable to play this week. Our game with Columbia on Saturday last speaks for itself largely. Columbia played a very weak game. To be sure, she was crippled by the loss of her two best players, Sherman and Morgan. The Yale team played rather a brilliant game, but it was unsteady and at times very risky. The ball is fumbled sometimes and there is a great tendency to throw it ahead...
Some of the freshmen deserve special notice. Among the rushers Adams and Phillips play the best game, while Austin and Kimball, the latter of whom has, however, been unable to play lately, are excellent half-backs. The playing of the full-back is rather weak, but during the last few days that position has been well filled by Gardner, who will develop into a good player with practice. It seems particularly unfortunate that a game with Yale could not have been arranged this year, as the Harvard freshmen for the past five years have been unable to beat the Yales...
...Clipper says of last week's hare and hound run: "The meet was on the whole a success, but runs should be held oftener, and thereby develop a branch of athletics in which American amateurs are very weak and deficient when compared with their English cousins...