Word: wesleyans
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...large score which Harvard piled up was due more to Wesleyan's weakness than to Harvard's strength. Harvard's team play was by no means first-class. She relied almost entirely upon the brilliant individual work of the backs. They showed an improvement in their interference for each other. Trafford and Fearing both doing very effective blocking around the ends...
...rush-line was as usual slow in lining up and in breaking Wesleyan's wedge. They lost five yards several times for offside play and holding. They had no trouble in getting through the Wesleyan's forwards and in preventing the quarter-back from putting the ball cleanly into play. The result was that only twice did a Wesleyan back make anything like a consider able gain; while in most of the cases Wesleyan had to surrender the ball on four downs...
...Wesleyan Quarter-back Stark did the greater part of the tackling and played a strong all-around game. The other men were easily blocked off, and, when they reached the runner, tackled weakly. They were as a whole plainly in no condition to play. For Harvard, Newell, Mason and Hallowell did good work in the line, and all the backs rushed brilliantly...
...every few minutes throughout the game. Trafford, Fearing, Lake and Grey as usual did most of the ground gaining, though the tackles ran occasionally, and Mason especially made some good rushes. Hallowell also followed the ball closely on kicks, and scored once or twice on a muff by the Wesleyan fullback...
...WESLEYAN. HARVARD...