Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...necessarily playing good football to win by such a score, displayed little advance over the game of a week before. A week later Williams was defeated by the score of 39 to 0. It is doubtful if a stranger contest was ever played in which splendid strength and decided weakness were shown by the same team. Coached to play high and diagnose the opponents' attack, the Dartmouth line was frequently pushed backward for long gains by the low-charging Williams' linemen. It is also true that the score does not nearly portray the relative strength of the two teams...
...backfield. All of these men are in first-class condition and will probably start in the Dartmouth game. The only man absent from practice was Potter, who is laid up with a muscle bruise. T. H. Frothingham followed the practice in street clothes, as his leg is still weak. H. E. Kersburg '06 and H. Foster '07 watched the work from the sidelines. In order to keep the field in good condition for the Dartmouth game, it is covered with hay every evening. The line-ups: TEAM A. TEAM B. Lewis, l.e. r.e., Felton McKay, l.t. r.t., Bush Minot...
...team has rounded into form very fast of late. The players are strong individually and have been moulded by the coaches into an exceptionally good team. The ends, however, are still weak in boxing the opposing tackles and in getting down the field under kicks...
...second team braced for a short time, but its line was weak, and the substitutes' backs made long gains, advancing the ball after the kick-off to the seconds' 40-yard line. A forward pass and four more line plays put the ball on the 3-yard line, whence Wendell scored again...
...weak link in the chain was not the Council per se, but its composition. The members were the "most prominent men in College," meaning that they already had their hands so full of work that they could not spare the time and thought that membership in the Council should involve. Their offense is palliated by the fact that it was the inevitable consequence of the system in vogue here of concentrating the entire student administrative work of the College on too few shoulders...