Word: freshman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Freshman eleven, in its last game of the season, defeated the Yale freshmen, on Saturday, by a score of fifty-four to nothing. The Harvard team was superior to its opponents in every point of the game, and showed the effects of better coaching and training. After the first two touchdowns had been secured, the Yale defense broke down completely and the subsequent scoring was due as much to the wretched tackling of the Yale team, as to the fast running of the Harvard backs...
During the rest of the half, Harvard tried the tandem formation with five men back of the line, which last year's Freshman team used, but it was no more successful than the ordinary plays. The half ended with the ball in Harvard's possession in the middle of the field...
...Harvard and Yale Freshman teams will play their annual football game this afternoon at 2 p. m. on Soldiers Field...
...time working on the 'Varsity. The past week's hard and very satisfactory practice, however, will doubtless find Yale prepared to play a strong game. Yet it is certain that the team is considerably weakened by the loss of Wilhelmi, fullback, who broke his collar-bone in the Princeton freshman game last Saturday. Although it is certain that Yale will be outclassed in punting by Stillman of Harvard, still there seems to be no doubt that their team is at the highest stage of its development...
...scores of the Harvard and Yale Freshman elevens for this fall...