Word: elis
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Very little is known about the strength of the Eli yearlings, inasmuch as up to date they have played no games and their practice have been limited by military drill. As the University team has had a long season of almost uninterrupted practice, it undoubtedly has an advantage over its rivals. Throughout the season their principal weakness has been lack of teamwork which is the chief cause of the defeats by Newton High and St. Paul...
...interest of the University is centered in the races of the two relay teams representing it, the first one being the annual Yale-Harvard Freshman dual race and the second a contest between the informal relay four and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Freshman team which will race the Eli yearlings will be composed of D. F. O'Connell '21, J. T. Baldwin '21, A. W. Douglass '21 and C. A. Page '21. J. M. B. Churchill '21 will not run on the team, as previously announced...
...October 27, was lost by the score of 22 points to 33. The next meet was a quadrangular affair on November 10 in which the Freshmen placed second to Wakefield High School with 56 points to the latter's 32. Last week came the first victory, won against the Eli freshmen...
...those who sat through the game in the Stadium last Saturday and saw the Eli eleven outplay and outfight our Freshmen, the result of the Informal vs. Newport Naval Reserves game came as a pleasant tonic to drown out their sorrows. The Informals lost, 14--0, but they put up a game which places them in the football Hall of Fame. With the possible exception of the Navy Yard team here in Boston, the Newport squad is the best in the country. With a line made up of men like Schlacter of Syracuse, and Callahan and Black of Yale...
...last Saturday. There were a few moments when it seemed as though the Crimson, remembering its former--invincibility, was about to score, but even the most enthusiastic of us realized that this was due to the individual performance of one backfield man. We refer to Humphrey. Five or six Eli antagonists were as nothing to this man, and that he will make splendid University material in years to come, provided the trench work is finished, is unquestionable. Likewise Captain Faxon stuck to his post on the line and worked every second of the game. He may feel that...