Word: winning
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...eleven meets Yale today with a determination to win. Harvard has never beaten Yale in two successive years and Harvard has seldom beaten Yale at New Haven, so the team which plays today has before it the prospect of a most significant victory. This object has been the key note of a season of hard, steady work, and today the test of the work will be made. A slow development has been sought after by the coaches and the result is that the team will begin the game at the highest possible point of physical and mental strength. The spirit...
...different score. But the game showed that during this last week a team must be developed which will have and show fight from beginning to end, will not fumble, will work together as a team, will play low and tackle hard, and will be filled with such determination to win that the least sign of defeat will never appear,-all of which qualities the eleven showed Saturday that it did not have. There is a great lesson to be learned from the losing team; and that is what teamwork and speed will do. A better exhibition of what a team...
...during the past week has not been such as, to arouse any expectations of a high score, and unless there is very noticeable improvement in the work today, a victory over a team which is sure to present so a strong a defense as Dartmouth will be hard to win...
...team that is but two weeks from the final contest of the year, the showing of the Harvard eleven was as discouraging as could well be imagined. The team and the University have had a tendency of late to feel that, because Harvard has managed to win all its games so far, a successful ending of the season will assuredly be reached. As a matter of fact, however, the team has not yet encountered a first-class opponent such as will be met at New Haven a week from Saturday. There are only five or six more practices which...
During the larger part of the season, the Pennsylvania team has not shown any great strength, but by defeating Columbia and Bucknell recently the eleven gave unmistakable sings of considerable improvement. Harvard has the advantage in weight, however, and should win by a fair margin, although Pennsylvania will surely play a hard game, and take full advantage of every mistake...