Word: winning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nature of the game also makes the situation critical. It has been noticed how open the game is, and how seriously mistakes by either team have resulted. It is such mistakes as these that win or lose a championship game, and it is particularly difficult to guard against them as the game is played this year...
...true in this coming event, the tables can be turned. We must become saturated with the true 'Harvard spirit' which can and will overwhelm any 'Yale spirit' which Yale can muster. We must saturate ourselves with the 'Harvard spirit,' not of the vintage which says, 'O Hell, we will win; let's have another drink,' but with the 'Harvard spirit' which spells determination to win. Let us all concentrate our minds on this, so that the players will feel the vibrations and be affected by it. In 1908, at New Haven, I felt these vibrations on the side lines...
...Haven must get behind the team and push. The team will be on a field with conditions far different from those in the Stadium, and the team is likely to make mistakes. But if the supporters of the team are full of determination to win, Yale shall be beaten...
...nothing could have been better timed than the warning there voiced. As Mr. Haughton said, "The present situation is very serious for the Harvard team ... in that up to the present we have continued to win our games by a safe margin, while Yale has twice been defeated and once tied." Judging from comparative scores and an impartial consideration of the two teams at present, clearly Harvard's greatest enemy at New Haven will be over confidence...
...which characterized the mass meeting last evening, a spirit which cannot help making the team feel that the whole College is behind it, trying, as it succeeded in doing in 1908, to make the coaches "feel the success vibrations on the "sidelines." This sort of spirit is bound to win at New Haven...