Word: favored
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...clock Harvard entered the field, and a minute later Yale followed. Captain Daly won the loss and chose the north goal, with a light wind in Harvard's favor. Hale kicked off to Daly on Harvard's twenty yard line, Daly returned it by a punt to Sharpe in midfield, and on Sharpe's fumble Hallowell got the ball for Harvard. On the kick-off, however, Coy had been offside and Yale had to kick-off again. Sawin returned this kick-off to Sharpe at Yale's fifty yard line. After three short line gains Sharpe circled right...
...best game of the season. It would seem that its advantage lay in its speed in the open game, in view of the hard work which Yale has been doing almost steadily for three weeks, and hence a dry field at New Haven would be in Harvard's favor by giving her an opportunity to exercised superior generalship in selecting plays
...game between the Seniors and Juniors promises to be a very good one, with the chances in favor of the Seniors, who are a little heavier, and have a few more experienced men. Both teams will probably play a good many substitutes, the seniors especially, as they have many men of about equal ability...
...games will be held either in New York or Chicago. The committee is now waiting to see which city offers the greater inducements before deciding definitely. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, one of those most interested in international athletics and the reviver of the Olympian games, is said to favor the selection of Chicago...
...touchdown of the game. J. Lawrence missed the goal. Soon after the kick-off Putnam made a fifty yard run around left end aided by Campbell's interference, but the second held for downs and no scoring resulted. After this the play was always in the second team's favor, the first losing the ball by misplays whenever it was gained. The ball was in the second's possession near the middle of the field when time was called...