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Seven Freshmen, members of this fall's cross-country team, have been chosen to make the trip to New York to compete in the Freshmen Intercollegiates next Saturday. These men were the first of the 1921 harriers to finish last Saturday in the dual, meet with Yale 1921 which the Freshmen won, 19 to 47. The squad, which will leave for New York tomorrow at 3 o'clock, consists of the following: D. F. O'Connell, J. E. Nally, G. W. Boyd, F. L. A. Cady, B. W. Boyden, C. A. Page, H. E. Chambers and E. A. Weld...
...effect of the war on University athletics is perhaps best shown by figures which have been compiled to show the number of "H" men now in Cambridge. Of the 73 athletes entitled to wear the "H" enrolled in the University last year, only six returned this fall, all of them entering graduate departments except W. B. Snow, Jr., '18, for a time captain of the University informal football team. Snow has since entered the School for Ensigns established at the University, so that there are now no letter men in the undergraduate body...
...regular quarterback and much the best drop-kicker of the 1916 squad, and Thacher was the regular left halfback. Weston was a guard on the eleven captained by C. E. Brickley '17 which defeated Yale 41 to 0. Wiggin was the strongest of the second-string centres last fall...
...first mentioned game will create much interest in the University, as the soldiers are led by E. W. Mahan '16, captain of the University eleven in 1915. Mahan, however, has been out of the game the greater part of the fall from the recurrence of a former injury. He is by far the strongest player on the Philadelphia team. In most of its games with service teams in New Jersey and Pennsylvania the Marines have been defeated, although with several weeks more of practice Mahan may be able to bring a well-developed eleven to Cambridge...
When General Maude took command of the army of the Tigris, some months after the fall of Kut-el-Amara, he found that the most difficult problem facing him as he planned his advanced on Bagdad was the absolute lack of an effective system of rail communication. It was this condition which prevented the relief of Kut during the winter of 1916, the river transportation proving inadequate. Under the direction of the new commander a complete railroad system was built from the Persian Gulf to Amara, and in addition the British Army was reorganized on a basis superior to that...