Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stubborn resistance put up by the Haverford team was somewhat of a surprise to the University team, which had anticipated rather an easy victory. The work of the opponents' defence, and of Steere in particular, was almost perfect, it being practically impossible to penetrate far enough to secure a good shot at goal...
...Westminster, Mahlenberg, Gettysburg and Ursinus, and which boasts of the enviable record of having had but six first downs credited to her opponents. What showing the Pennsylvania eleven will be able to make against a major eleven is problematical; certainly the University line will offer by far the most stubborn resistance that the State backfield has encountered so far this season...
...football team won an uphill game from Tufts on Saturday by the score of 13 to 6. The line was seriously weakened by the absence of Pennock; and in the backfield Bradlee was the only regular. Tufts, on the other hand, showed unexpected strength at straight football, and presented stubborn oposition to Harvard's attack...
...teams on the Harvard schedule were victorious, but Yale, Princeton, and Brown by no means came up to the brilliant promises of the week before. Washington and Jefferson's and Tufts' easy defeats of Dickinson and Bates, respectively, showed that the next two early season games will be stubborn practice contests for the University eleven...
...Yale which has occurred in recent months has apparently given so much general satisfaction to graduates of the university who are interested in its rowing future as the editorial published in the Yale News last week calling for the termination of the present coaching regime. The independence and the stubborn backbone which requested the present coach and his assistants to hand in their commissions was the sign which was particularly pleasing to many Yale men. It has seemed to many of the older graduates that the characteristic Yale directness has been lacking at New Haven of late and the blunt...