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...association football game was closely contested throughout, the superiority of Harvard's individual playing being largely offset by Columbia's better team work. Near the close of the first half Columbia scored a goal. Columbia made a foul shortly afterwards, and on the penalty kick Osborne scored an easy goal for Harvard. In the second half the University forwards showed a more concerted attack. Greene, in the middle of the half, took the ball down the field to Gordon, who shot a difficult goal...
Both teams had good team work and covered well, although Yale was slightly superior in these respects. Harvard's occasional wild passing was more than offset by Yale's inability, in spite of numerous chances, to throw goals. Harvard won by hard, aggressive play and accurate shooting...
...unfavorable conditions of weather and field, but also to general lack of ability and aggressiveness on the part of the team. The West Point game, although won by a score of 4 to 0, was practically a drawn battle, as the faster play of the West Point eleven easily offset the University team's advantage in weight. On October 29, the team was defeated by Pennsylvania, 11 to 0, in a game in which the aggressive play of a fast and determined opposing team well grounded in knowledge of the game, made evident the weakness of the Harvard eleven...
...held for downs and thus lost its only chance to score. At times both teams made substantial gains by rushing, and each by stubborn defensive play repeatedly threw the other back for no gain or a loss. Harvard's advantage of superior weight was throughout most of the game offset by West Point's quicker starting, and harder and surer tackling. The superiority of the University team in the game as a whole came through a slight advantage in kicking, somewhat better generalship, and quickness to profit by West Point's fumbles...
...Athletic Committee must result in the serious crippling, if not in the complete extinction, of many of the so-called "minor" teams; for, with all the calls that are made on the undergraduate's purse, it will probably be found impossible to obtain an increase in subscriptions sufficient to offset the withdrawal of the financial support heretofore given them by the Committee. The crippling of these teams would be a great pity, for in a University the size of Harvard the four major sports cannot furnish a large enough field for a fair proportion of the men anxious to take...