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Daly's squad played the second half, and, although handicapped by darkness, they put up almost as fine a game as the other squad. The line held well and tackled hard, and the quarter-back, C. D. Daly, kicked splendidly. Several times he returned the ball for a good gain when the other team was almost on top of him. The second 'Varsity scored once in this half. The Freshmen failed to score although they had the ball on their opponents five-yard line once. The 1901 line-up in the second half was; W. Lawrence, r. e.; Mackay...
...defense, Wheeler and Bouve played erratically, at one time breaking through and tackling strongly and at another allowing large gains to be made directly through them. The loss of Doucette at centre was much in evidence as Burden was slow and almost a barrier to the backs on centre plays. Cabot and Moulton got into the plays in rare form, tackled strongly, and were always well down on punts...
...game with Williams on Saturday, the Yale team made a very good showing, the score of 32 to 0 being 12 better than that made by Harvard a week earlier. Yale's team was composed almost entirely of new men, not one of whom is as yet assured of his position, and yet they showed evidence of considerable training. Twenty men were tried in all, eight new men being put in during the second half...
...baseball practice yesterday afternoon brought out almost enough candidates to make up six full teams. As this is a greater number of men than was expected, the squad will be reduced till there are only enough for four nines, which will then start the regular fall practice...
...practice was snappy throughout. Haughton made several good runs behind rather ragged interference. Sawin distinguished himself by some clever dodging. Cochrane broke through and tackled well. Sanborn, M. S., who played on the second, did the best tackling of the afternoon. He was in every play, succeeding almost by his own efforts in holding the 'Varsity for downs...