Word: overwhelm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Stadium this month were decisively successful in their contests Saturday. Most successful among these was the Virginia eleven which will appear in Cambridge next Saturday. Its opponent, Richmond College, is little known in the football world, but it is significant that the university eleven was able to overwhelm them with a deluge of 74 points. Cornell, who will test the mettle of Coach Haughton's men two weeks from now, was victorious over Williams by the score of 46 to 6. Nothing but straight football was used by the victors, while the losing purple team tried many varieties of open...
...reasons for a certain confidence noted above, any real advantage for Harvard. The sole fact that Princeton defeated Yale will convert the Yale eleven of next Saturday from an ordinary Yale team confident of defeating Harvard into a desperate machine fighting to the last ditch not only to overwhelm Harvard but to turn a whole season from utter failure into partial success. Princeton's victory Saturday puts Yale in exactly that position where the latter appears to the very best advantage; namely, fighting against odds. And it is a rare Yale team that does not win under those circumstances...
Three scrimmages have been held by the Freshmen during the week between the first and second teams. In all of these the first team men have allowed the second to gain consistently until late in the scrimmages, when they seemed to find themselves and overwhelm their lighter opponents...
Brown comes to Cambridge with brass bands and cheering sections, flushed with the recent victory at Philadelphia; confident that this season's one ambition, namely, to defeat Harvard, will be fulfilled as surely as was last year's determination to overwhelm Yale. All Providence comes to Cambridge to behold the probable victory, knowing full well the exact power of the eleven tried and chosen...
...said that the reason Yale won was because eleven Harvard men played against 20,000 Yale men filled with the 'Yale spirit.' This statement has been 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...