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...playing again though the latter is still lame. Woodruff, contrary to all expectations, has resumed his old place as right guard. The other guard is Heffelfinger, a powerful freshman. Carbin at center completes the rush line. Wurtemburg, as quarter-back is playing almost as well as the famous Beecher. The half-backs will be Graves and McClung, both are playing remarkably well. Bull still fills his old place of full-back and will doubtless take all chances to kick goals from the field. The substantiates are Newell, Harvey, McBride, Pike and Brewster. Most of the men are of medium weight...
...York instead of at New Haven. To this our faculty and foot-ball management would only consent on condition that it should not be considered as establishing a precedent, and on condition that Yale should give satisfactory assurance that she would play in Cambridge this year. Accordingly Captain Beecher and Mr. Gill of the Yale team wrote to the managers of the Harvard team, stating that if Harvard would consent to play in New York, Yale would consider the game as having been played at New Haven, the natural inference being that Yale would play in Cambridge this year...
...conclusion is plain enough. Since Harvard only agreed to play in New York last year because she relied on Captain Beecher's agreement to consider the game as equivalent to one played in New Haven, therefore, as Harvard cannot play in New York this year, Yale's honor, if nothing else, demands that she should play in Cambridge...
...captain Beecher, of Yale, prophesies that the Harvard-Yale game this fall will be more evenly contested than the one last year...
...professorship of physical culture, with an endowment of fifty thousand dollars, is to be established at Amherst College as a memorial of Henry Ward Beecher...