Word: wins
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...trophy played for is offered by Mr. I. N. Rice of New York. It has been won twice by Cambridge and Oxford and, unless the American colleges win this year, the shield becomes the property of the English colleges. The game has been usually played by the American colleges in New York, the Associated Press furnishing the cable; but this year Harvard is making an effort to have the match played in Boston...
...well-deserved victory belongs to Yale. Harvard was outclassed in every department of the game but one; and, although the team played with good spirit and did not give up until the end, it had met a superior opponent and at no time had a chance to win...
...pinned all her faith on offense alone, and confined all her efforts in that line to one play, the guards back formation. Harvard, on the other hand, used all styles of play, and although accomplishing nothing extraordinary in any one of these, was able to outplay Pennsylvania sufficiently to win by a good margin. In the first place the Harvard team showed so much quickness on the defense that Pennsylvania's powerful offense was practically useless. In all, Pennsylvania gained many yards, but the gains were not consecutive and, without gaining that is steady, no team can win except...
...clumsiness which sometimes mars the work of a heavy team. The steadiness and the unusual speed with which the entire eleven plunged into the plays were the principal causes of Harvard's victory. This offset the Pennsylvania attack, and when that was done the team gained its opportunity to win. Here again, in the attack, quickness was the essential feature. The interference was not very smooth, it was not especially steady and was not strong, but the speed and the vigor with which the plays started was sufficient to make long consecutive gains around and through the cumbersome Pennsylvania line...
...squad was brought before the coaches more forcibly than ever before. When practice began on Monday, Sept. 17, forty-five candidates came out and within a week the squad numbered eighty men. To select a team from so many candidates and to round it into condition soon enough to win the two important games with Pennsylvania and Yale seemed a very difficult takes. The coaches decided at once to bring about the development of the team very slowly and gradually, and not to vary this policy in the slightest degree. For this reason the elementary practice at starting, running...