Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...defeat by Columbia. Inaccuracy in passing seems to be the chief fault of the team, and a tendency to lose sight of the ball seems also apparent. Owing to the hard practicing at shooting goals during the past few days this department has been strengthened considerably and should offset some of the other faults. As a whole the team is not in good condition, and on the staying powers of the men the game this afternoon will in a large measure depend. Owing to the poor condition of Randall, Smith will probably play at centre in this game. Hanavan...
...recent practice of the team has been far from satisfactory. Marked weakness in shooting goals has offset improvement in passing and in defensive work. Both Princeton and Columbia will have, in playing on their own floors, the advantages which Harvard has had in the two games previously played with these two teams...
...system equally impassive. They should not follow too closely a football game or any event which tends to bring too prominently to notice men who are in other ways not the best candidates. What may appear disadvantageous in the slight complexity of these rules would be offset by the sanction which a recognized method of procedure would give to the removal of officers who seemed inefficient...
...began the second half by running in Maine's kick-off for thirty yards behind compact interference. His punt was soon followed by a fumble by Bearse, and Barnard secured the ball on Maine's thirty-six yard line. Piper's gain of thirteen yards around right end was offset by a ten yard penalty for offside play, and Marshall tried another goal from the field from the forty yard line. The direction was slightly inaccurate, and the ball passed several feet to the left of the post. Little was lost by the attempt, however, as after the kick...
...Anglo-Saxon understanding, but hardly to purchase our acquiescence in a war policy pursued on a continent to which, happily, the Monroe Doctrine does not extend. The announcement in Parliament the other day that England alone had sided with us in the Spanish war was made not to offset any rising collegiate feeling in America, but, it is presumed, as an effort to offset the effect of Prince Henry's visit...