Word: winning
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...line without fight, not over-reliable ends, easily-broken interference, and unsteady backs are not the elements which compose a successful eleven, yet some-how the team with its many weaknesses. has managed to win all its games so far from much lighter opponents. Slow spasmodic progress has made the present strength of the team a trifle uncertain, but at no time has the eleven displayed any abilities that would justify confidence in its success when matched against an opponent of more than average weight or experience. Both these latter qualities are components of the Brown team, and added...
...putt on each green he won the twelfth and thirteenth, then tied the fourteenth, but lost the fifteenth. With one hole to the good and three to play, the sixteenth hole was halved in four, and the seventeenth in three. Hollins only needed to halve the eighteenth to win the match, but he took three putts and lost the hole. The extra nineteenth hole was badly played by both men, but McFarland won it in five...
...defeating Princeton by a score of 10 points to 6 1-2. At the end of the morning round of eighteen holes Princeton's score was 7 1-2 points to Harvard's 2 1-2, but in the afternoon the University team recovered itself and was able to win by 3 1-2 points...
...Murdock have done well during the summer and Winston has been playing brilliantly during the past three weeks. Brown and W. E. Egan on the other hand have not been playing well enough to entitle them to first positions on the team, but should be counted on to win their matches...
...enthusiastic work of the debaters, has aided materially in securing an almost unbroken line of victories over Yale and Princeton. But other colleges are coming to adopt methods which have hitherto been used solely by Harvard, and, as was shown last year, it is becoming harder and harder to win. If the University is to hold its place in debating, it is necessary that an unusually large number of men try for the University debates, for the best teams are picked from the largest fields. And it should be borne in mind, especially by Freshmen and Sophomores, that class...