Word: winning
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...defeated Carlisle on Saturday 17 points to 5. The score, however, gives no indication of the closeness of the game nor the relative strength of the two teams as first constituted. Carlisle, going into the game with the reputation of playing straight football and relying on mere strength to win, began at the start a series of trick plays and unusual formations that entirely upset Harvard's defense. These plays resulted in a touchdown for Carlisle in less than five minutes. Then Harvard by a temporary rally took the ball to Carlisle's thirty-five yard line, where Daly kicked...
...crippled team defeated by Harvard and Pennsylvania was hardly expected. It was not around the ends, which have been rather weak all the season, that Columbia made her greatest gains, but it was by hard line-plunging, the same style of play with which Yale used to win the game. As in the Harvard-Carlisle game, Columbia scored her touch-down by using an unlooked-for style of offense. Yale finally won, however, by better endurance...
...play weakened a little here but he finally won after a long deuce game. Laverack started with a rush in the last set and soon had the games 4 to 1. He could not keep the pace, however, and after the game stood 5 to 4 allowed Marvin to win three games in succession and also the match...
...these cups are offered to develop kickers, no one will be allowed to win more than one cup in the same event, or more than one cup in one year, although he may enter for all three events. For instance, if a man should win in punting this year, next year he could compete for place and drop kicking only...
Andover has a strong team, as was shown by the tie game with Holy Cross. The second eleven, however, should win, as its constant practice against the first team has put it in good condition...