Word: winded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...victorious Yale eleven was run with superb management on the part of Captain Hinkey. They followed out a well defined policy with perfect coolness and confidence. Their tactics were finely adapted to the conditions which were brought about by their luck in winning the toss. With the wind at their backs they played strictly a kicking game and gained enormously by it. Harvard was not able to punt more than half the distance against the strong wind, consequently she was put upon the offensive for the greater part of the first half...
...head-long impetuosity were the qualities which the occasion demanded, but Harvard had no captain to rally her men and infuse into them this winning spirit. A great mistake was made in not trying around the end plays oftener, and also in failing to take advantage of what little wind remained to play a punting game. It is also a question if Harvard's policy of playing her halfbacks fully five yards behind the line is as effective as Yale's, whose runners invariably are placed close to the rushers and are thus much quicker in striking the line, apparently...
...fifth successive year Yale won the toss. On account of the heavy wind that was blowing, Captain Hinkey chose the side for the obvious advantage in kicking...
...first half Harvard gained 208 yards, only 71 being on punts. They lost but 9 yards, on Newell's off-side play. Harvard had the ball in 55 plays. Yale on the other hand had the ball only 17 times, making 237 yards, 210 being on punts before the wind. Yale's rushes netted just 27 yards...
...that the eleven has once more been defeated, Harvard men must resolutely face the future and ask themselves what can be done. It will do no good to misrepresent facts to ourselves; the eleven was fairly outplayed. It is true that Yale had unquestionable luck in regard to the wind, and it is further true that Harvard had mishaps which seriously affected her chances. How the game would have resulted if these particulars had been different, is a matter of idle speculation; we must recognize the fact that, as matters actually were, Yale won a clean victory...