Word: indians
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game between Harvard and the Indian team Saturday afternoon was the most severe test which the Harvard team has played this season. The indians hammered away at the line every time they got the ball, in many instances making their distance on the fourth rush, and hardly ever resorting to a punt. In fact it is safe to say that if they had a good punter back of their stonewall line, and could vary their centre plunging with an occasional end play, they would be second to no team in the country...
...first game of football ever played between the University eleven and the Carlisle Indian School team will be played on Soldiers Field this afternoon as 3 o'clock, and promises to be one of the most closely-contested games of the year...
...Indian team has played a strong game all through the season. Although the team is lacking in some of the fine points of the game, has a tendency to fumble, and has no good punter, the men are physically stronger and faster than those of any other team in the country. They also have much better staying powers than any of the teams which they have played this year. The eleven as a whole plays a clean, hard game. The ends follow the ball closely, breaking through all interference, and all the men tackle low and hard...
...Carlisle Indian game will be one of the best of the year. The best report of the game will be in the Boston Sunday Journal...
Yesterday, for the first time this year, the University eleven had secret practice in preparation for the Carlisle Indian and Princeton games. No game was played, the whole practice being devoted to going through signals...