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...game repeatedly plunge the team into impotence and the stands into gloom. The very opposite was evident Saturday. With the ball inside Harvard's 10-yard mark early in the first period, the team, instead of allowing discouragement to slacken its play, made a splendid brace and outplayed an almost perfect machine in practically every department of the game. Better yet, our cheering and singing was more determined than has ever been given to any Harvard team. We feel confident that the splendid support thus afforded went far toward giving the Harvard eleven a fighting spirit that plainly outshone...
...Harvard players to get better started before the forwards began to interfere with the advance of the ball. Ketcham was Yale's mainstay in the line, but among his opponents it is hard to choose. Captain Fisher and Leslie never failed to stop plays aimed at them, and almost the same thing can be said of the rest of the line. Storer and Hitchcock, both of whose experience on a University team has been limited to this year, were nearly as strong; and on the ends Smith played his usual game and Felton played a game that it would...
Camp, the only son of Yale's athletic adviser, has developed as a punter and halfback within the past month. He kicks a long spiral ball which is difficult to handle. In the Princeton game, his kicks averaged almost 30 yards. He gets off his punts quickly and with good direction. He is also Yale's mainstay in end plays in which he runs well and is difficult to tackle on account of his height and has a knack in turning when tackled and falling forward his full length...
...said that when the drawing for the frontispiece arrived the editors sat in speechless joy for an entire evening in their sanctum. Certainly Mr. Flagg, an honorary editor of the paper, has done a brilliant piece of work that sets a high standard for the drawings. And almost all are good, some very funny in themselves, some admirably illustrating the verses that accompany them. The caricatures are excellent, especially the clever pictorial review of the Blue Bird. The whole number, however, overflows with a good, healthy, fantastic humor. It never descends into profundity, is not boastful as some Yale Game...
Camp, the only son of Yale's athletic adviser, has developed as a punter and halfback within the past month. He kicks a long spiral ball which is difficult to handle. In the Princeton game, his kicks averaged almost 30 yards. He gets off his punts quickly and with good direction. He is also Yale's mainstay in end plays in which he runs well and is difficult to tackle on account of his height and has a knack in turning when tackled and falling forward his full length...