Word: powerless
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...showing of the University team was a great improvement over any of its former work, and Columbia was outplayed at every department of the game. After the first few minutes of play the team seemed to improve rapidly in effective team work until Columbia was almost powerless to check the attack. Individual playing of Pell and Newhall, and the team play of the offense were the features of the game...
...defense Harvard was unable to stop Pennsylvania's fast and varied attack, and when in possession of the ball was powerless to make consistent gains, except during the latter part of the second half, when in three successive series of rushes, the ball was three times advanced almost half the length of the field only to be lost when within striking distance of the goal line. These were the only chances Harvard had to score during the whole game, except on a futile attempt to kick a goal from placement from the 50-yard line just before time was called...
...hours of labor. Such questions are the most frequent subjects of controversy, but if there were no questions of wages or hours of labor, other issues would be found upon which class hostility would express itself. It is obvious that public officials and courts of law are powerless to deal with this difficulty. They may succeed in keeping the hostile forces within the bounds of law and order, but they cannot remove the hostility itself. With characteristic insight, President Eliot has directed attention to the root of the difficulty...
...before the Pennsylvania game. With almost all the regular men on the University eleven, it was able in a thirty minute line-up to score only once against a weak second team, and was in turn scored upon. The line charged too high and on the defense was almost powerless. Except in the last four or five minutes, there was an absence of fight so that long gains were impossible. The first twenty minutes of scrimmage practice was secret...
...very clearly, what its recent work in practice has indicated; the absolute lack of fight. In the first half the Indians had the University team at their mercy, and ran the ball 70 yards without a single failure to make first down, the defense, throughout the game, was utterly powerless either to analyze or to stop Carlisle's advance with the ball. Double and delayed passes, quarterback runs, straight mass plays through tackle, varied by different wing shift formations, were all in turn, used most successfully in bending back the Harvard line. The one reliable part of the defense...