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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Owing to the large number of men who have come out, the squad has been divided into four nines, with substitutes. Two nines play regular games against each other on alternate days, substituting players until each man has been given a chance. In this way the men get the best kind of training, that of experience in actual play on the field...
Under the vigorous coaching of Captain Reid, the whole squad has been well drilled in hard, fast play. The backing-up is, perhaps, the best feature of the work at present. In this, the effect of good coaching is especially apparent, great stress being laid upon the principle of having the fielders anticipate the play, and help each other out. The base running is rather poor, except in a few individual cases. Most of the men are inclined to be reckless, using no headwork, and lacking the quickness of decision necessary to good base-running. The batting is very weak...
...pitchers, Coburn and McDonald appear to be the best, although each of them can easily improve. Milne and Jacques are the best behind the bat, and are both doing good work. Lewis is the only man who has shown any steadiness at first base, the other men seeming to lack experience in that position. For second base, Keene and Putnam are about equally matched, and each is doing excellent work, although Putnam is weaker at the bat. At shortstop, Wright, Coolidge and Gilles are fairly accurate and cover a good deal of ground. Lancey and Rowley are doing well...
Class football seems to have aroused an unusually small amount of interest in all of the three upper classes this fall. The best men have not answered the call for candidates, and the men who have come out have been dilatory in doing so. Consequently the elevens are in a somewhat confused condition. When the class football season opened a week ago today, seventeen candidates for the Junior team began practice on Soldiers Field. On the day after, twelve candidates came out for the Senior team. The Sophomores showed still greater indifference, only eight men responding to Captain Wendell...
...Best general references: Richardson, Presidential Messages, Vol. X ('98-'99); Review of Reviews, XX: 65 (July '99); Harper's Monthly, XCVII; 609 (Aug. '98) Yale Review VIII, 716 (Aug. '99) Tribune Almanac 1899; 154, Treaties with Spain; 591, Boston Transcript, March and April; C. F. Adams, "Imperialism...