Word: drives
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President and Mrs. Lowell will entertain at luncheon today at their house on Quincy street those members of the University who are leaving on the 17th of this month to drive ambulances in France. This is the third time the president has extended his hospitality to the ambulance men leaving for France, besides a reunion luncheon two weeks ago for those who have returned...
John Shaw Pfaffmann '17, of Quincy, has been elected captain of the University tennis team to fill the position left vacant by the resignation of G. C. Caner '17, who is going abroad to drive an ambulance. Pfaffmann was a regular on last year's team. The loss of Caner will be keenly felt, as he was the mainstay of the University team in the Intercollegiate last fall, winning the singles championship and with R. Harte '17 the doubles championship...
Yale is the home of miraculous "come-backs." There are many indications that she has at last climbed out of the lowly rut of former defeats and under the efficient guidance of a new coaching system has found again the drive and power that were once her victorious characteristics. The grit of Yale is universally know; it is in our power on Saturday to make the Harvard fighting spirit equally famed. The same fighting spirit that has animated Harvard's sons on the blood-stained battlefields of Europe must be shown on the football field and in the stands...
...This will mean a lot, as Harvard's game has been built this year for speed to put on against a heavier rushline, and a game that is aimed to take the ball around the Yale wings and to throw it over the New Haven forwards rather than to drive through the line...
...line of tremendous strength, one which should play a stonewall defence against any running attack. Its backfield is as good as any I have seen in years when it is going strong, as the backs I have witnessed--Legore, Carey, Bingham and Smith--are well set up, have a drive that carries them forward when tackled and are exceedingly difficult to down in the open. On a dry field the attack is at its best. On a wet turf it lacks the punch and brilliancy that marks its work on firm footing, due to the principle folowed in advancing...