Word: strength
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first minute the team 'came back.' And the fact that the team, in the last five minutes of play fought their way to a tie shows the stuff they are made of." Relative to the Yale game he said, "I was greatly impressed by the Yale team, their strength and power. But look at that eleven," (turning to the men on the stage). "No man can say that Yale will outfight us on Saturday...
During the week Coach Farrell has been hard at work correcting the weakness shown last Saturday. Particular attention has been paid to training the men to save their strength for the last of the race and to developing the slow...
...classes of society are pondering. Giving in to the strikers at every occasion will not solve it. Recent events show only too clearly that the more the strikers get, the more they want. Crushing the strikes once they start appears clearly impossible due to the high organization and strength of the modern labor unions. But an anti-strike law would not fill the bill. Its immediate result would be a general uprising; it takes away from the laboring man his only means of self-protection...
While Brown has been buffeted and bruised by four of the strongest elevens of the season, Yale, with the possible exception of Boston College, has met no formidable opponent. As a result the strength of the Yale team is at best problematical. Defenders of the Yale football attack and of the new coaching system of which Dr. Sharpe is the head, are unwilling to make any positive assertions and admit that the strength of the eleven cannot be estimated until the clash with Brown. Either the coaches are holding back some more effective scoring plays than they have disclosed...
...preface to the annual late season classic, the Army and Navy games with Notre Dame and Georgetown respectively are attracting considerable interest. Both teams as yet have had no serious tests and the results of these contests will in a measure, indicate their strength...