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...real practice for the University football squad for this week ended yesterday afternoon with a thirty-minute scrimmage between the first and second teams. Tomorrow the practice will be secret, and it will continue from now on, unless otherwise announced. In the scrimmage the first team showed up considerably better than it has at any time during the week. Several of the regulars, Minot, P. D. Smith, and Corbett were in the line-up at the start but were replaced before long. In the line, Perkins started at centre, but when he was taken out P. Withington was shifted from...
...opening of the scrimmage the second team was given the ball on the first team's 30-yard line. No downs were kept and the second team was told to score. A series of forward passes was tried, several with fair success. After about ten plays Johnson, who was playing quarterback on the second, caught a forward pass and ran for a touchdown, but the play was declared illegal. The first team was then given a chance to carry the ball. The teamwork was better than on the day before, which enabled Long to score after a series of line...
...line-up was as follows: FIRST TEAM. SECOND TEAM. Houston, Rogers, l.e. r.e., Paine McKay, Hooper, l.t. r.t., Coach Blagden, Coburn P. Withington, West, l.g. r.g., Blake, E. W. Fisher Perkins, P. Withington, c. c., Knapp R. T. Fisher, Stow, r.g. l.g., Brock L. Withington, r.t. l.t., Coach Robinson, Pfaelzer, Davis G. G. Browne, L. D. Smith, R. C. Brown, r.e. l.e., Clifford O'Flaherty, Galatti, q.b. q.b., Johnson, Merrill Corbett, Frothingham, Pierce, l.h.b. r.h.b., Tryon P. D. Smith, Morrison, r.h.b. l.h.b., R. M. Page, Burrage Minot, Long, f.b. f.b., E. S. Blodgett
...Princeton football team was barely able to win from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Princeton yesterday, the final score being 8 to 6. At the close of the first half both teams had scored a touchdown, but Princeton failed to kick the goal, thus leaving Virginia in the lead by one point. In the second half the winning score for Princeton was made by Cunningham, quarterback, on a goal from the field...
...required for a degree at Oxford. Any student who does not offer Greek upon the qualifying examinations, must offer it in the Responsions which are held in Oxford towards the end of September of each year. Since the final election of Rhodes scholars is announced about January first, any man who has not passed in Greek on the qualifying examinations in October will have nine months in which to prepare it before the Responsions...