Word: strongest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...strongest at the tackles and ends, though they were considerably weakened at end by the loss of Beardsell, who broke his collar bone during the game, and at halfback by McCornick who has been compelled to give up playing. There was a great confusion of signals by Edmunds and the backs in general, but otherwise the team play was fairly good. Adsit and Talbot played the best game for 1900 and Sargent for Hopkinson...
Except in a few instances, the backs started faster, ran with more precision, and hit the line harder than at any time this season. The interference, with the exception of Haughton, got into swing in good shape. Garrison, who was tried at quarter for the first time, was the strongest factor in aiding his backs by timely blocking off. He was virtually the instrument of Dibblee's long run of 50 yards for a touchdown. He ran the plays with a great deal of judgment and infused plenty of spirit into the men, by his energetic style of play...
...wish to protest against the tone of your editorial of June 17, in which you say: "It would be a really remarkable performance if the crew should win this year." This editorial, it seems to me, brings out forcibly one of the strongest reasons for Harvard's defeats in the past. We are satisfied with too little from our teams. Our attitude has been too often that of your editorial, when you say of the crew: "All that we have a right to expect of it is for it to make a reasonably good, creditable showing." To be sure...
...also do the crew an injustice. When we have a crew which is by common consent the strongest in years, why discourage their work by telling them beforehand that you do not expect them to win; that it would nothing short of marvellous if they did? They have a right to expect, in return for their hard, unselfish work, the implicit confidence of the University, and this, it seems to me, your editorial fails to give...
...second Junior crew has been rowing fairly well and promises to make a good showing in the races. The intermediate crew is the only one in which those who have previously won in amateur regattas may row, so that it is naturally the strongest of the crews...