Word: ball
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...Freshmen scrimmaged very poorly yesterday, and their listlessness was discouraging in view of the way they played last Saturday. Playing against the University second team they carried the ball to the five-yard line, where they failed in eight attempts to put it across. The Freshman lacked coordination and failed to show their usual power. Selden at centre, and Taylor at quarterback for the seconds played well...
Laplant, at end, for the visitors furnished several thrills and succeeded on one occasion in carrying the ball to Princeton's five-yard line as a result of a forward pass. Here, however, the Williams team was held helpless...
Lead by Captain Mahan, who played with a brilliant versatility, the Harvard offense succeeded in showing some real football, especially in the third quarter, when the Crimson took the ball from Harvard's 18-yard line and carried it straight down the field across the Penn. State goal line. It was an 82-yard march made by short but sure advances, a flash of that plow-like attack that has been used so gloriously by past Harvard teams...
...surprice to those who have watched his work throughout the last week, and many had expected him to drive the team with a firm grip, as he did. He chose his plays with a clever judgment, caught every punt that came to him, and successfully ran back the ball. The man who plays quarterback against Princeton and Yale may well be Robinson...
...first of the series of Copley-Plaza concerts will be given in the ball-room of the Copley-Plaza Hotel, Boston, next Monday morning at 11 o'clock. The artists will be Johannes Sembach, Johnna Gadski, of the Metropolitan Opera Company, and Beatrice Harrison, the young and already famous 'cellist. Mr. Sembach, who will sing tenor, and Madame Gadski, prima donna, took part in the production of Siegfried in the Stadium last June. The program includes selections from Schuman, Schubert, Handel, and a duet from Act 1 of Wagner's "Goetterdaemmerung" by Mr. Sembach and Mme. Gadski. Elmer Wilson will...