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With a team strengthened by the return of its captain, the informal University eleven today plays its first game in the Stadium at 3 o'clock against the strong and heavy Naval Reserve team from Bumpkin Island...
...scrimmage was held as several of the men were lame from the long workout against the Freshmen on the previous day. This afternoon, however, scrimmage will be resumed again with the 1921 squad so that the informals' plays may receive actual trial before the game Saturday with the Bumpkin Island Naval Reserves...
...Navy is perhaps even better off in the number of well-known players. Bumpkin Island has men of the calibre of Cawley, a former collegiate star. The Newport Naval Reserve, however, has the greatest aggregation at present in Naval football of the vicinity. Black, captain of the Yale team last year, and Barrett, Cornell's sensational quarter-back, are the more prominent. Other Yale men in the lineup are Pumpelly, the drop kicker, and Callahan, a centre. Gerrish, a former Dartmouth captain is also playing. Several other former college players could be mentioned. This list has not considered the possibilities...
...readers are characteristically close, and where every person is under suspicion of being a thief until he is beyond the reach of temptation; but when members of the University are honored by the hirelings of the University with a grade of courtesy which would shame a country grocer's bumpkin, and with a gentlemanliness of demeanor which indicates an apprenticeship serving rations in a penitentiary, the intruding student is apt to wish that his taste for the finer courtesies had been better adapted to this new environment in the Reading Room at Gore Hall...
...music by the eminent composer Max Hirschfeld, who personally conducts the orchestra, is sure to be appreciated. Miss Hall in her triple role of peddler, "mine host's wife," and Lady Honoria, never fails to elicit applause. Mr. C. B. Bradshaw as Lubin Mugby makes a most successful country bumpkin. The rest of the cast are well suited to the demands of the play...