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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There was no scrimmage yesterday afternoon for the University squad, signal practice being held for about half an hour. After this T. H. Frothingham kicked off from the middle of the held and the next team ran the ball back several times with the whole squad interfering. As it began to rain, most of the squad was sent in, Withinton trying several field-goals with Gardner...
...Freshman football squad began practice yesterday with tackling the dummy and falling on the ball. The coaches then divided the squad into four teams and after running through signal practice, the first scrimmage of the season was held. The backfields are strong and fast, but fumbling and a slight indecision were very noticeable, as is common in the first scrimmage. F. Parker, Jr., '13, has just been appointed as assistant coach of the squad...
...Cram '88 was the next speaker. He began by saying that the members of the entering class had proved their right to great freedom and few rules. But each one of the class is now at a crisis in his educational career. Is he able to use and not abuse these rights to independence...
...tried out at times. The absence at 5 of Withington, who played football during the fall season, necessitated changing Bacon from 4 to 5. Newton, Strong, Leslie, and Balch, from last year's Freshman crew, were the new men tried out in the boat. When the spring training began, Newton was sent in to stroke, with Cutler at 6, but, as Newton got on probation, it was not thought advisable to develop the eight with him at stroke and the two men were again interchanged. With Hooper at 4, in place of Withington, who was supervising spring football practice, with...
...than Harvard. Four men were lost by graduation, and there was little good material in the freshman eight and university four of last year. Coach Kennedy, evidently believing that Harvard had won for the last two years by developing men of greater physical strength and weight than his men, began early in the season to look for some heavy oarsmen...