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...second down, and then B. Trafford attempted to kick, but was stopped, losing fifteen yards. On Harvard's third down the ball was given to Yale for off-side play. On Yale's second down Cranston broke through and tackled McBride, recovering the ground lost on McClung's first rush. Wurtemburg fumbled, but Yale was given five yards for Dean's off-side play and saved the ball. Both sides kicked with a loss for Yale. Yale then worked the ball beyond Harvard's ten-yard line by short rushes by Gill (2), Morrison (3), McClung (2), Rhodes and McBride...
...college chess tournament will begin tonight at the Chess club rooms in the old Hasty Pudding building, when the first round will be played. After the first round, contestants may arrange games at their own convenience...
...championship of the smaller intercollegiate football league was practically settled Saturday morning by Dartmouth's victory over Williams. At the end of the first half the score was five to nothing in favor of Williams, but Dartmouth braced strongly in the next half and scored five touchdowns to William's one, leaving the final score twenty to nine. At the Berkeley oval, New York, Cornell defeated Columbia twenty to nothing. The last game of the season was played at Princeton, the Orange Athletic club being defeated by a score of 54 to 6. Pennsylvania won from Lehigh at Philadelphia, fourteen...
...Springfield on Saturday in a closely contested match. The conditions of the match were fifteen bluerocks and fifteen clay pigeons for each man. As no bluerocks could be obtained it was found necessary to substitute keystone birds. The strange birds and, the high wind which was blowing during the first part of the match materially affected the shooting at the beginning...
...match was shot in six rounds, three at each kind of birds. Yale won the choice of birds first and chose the keystones. In the first round Yale secured a lead of one bird and kept it until the third round when Harvard rallied and gained six birds over her opponents. The third round closed the first half with Harvard five birds in the lead. The second half was more spirited and both teams did much better shooting. Yale tried hard to overcome Harvard's lead but without success. The first round was a tie. A gain of two birds...