Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having ended the two weeks of conditioning practice on Saturday with an hour long scrimmage for all 56 members of the squad, Coach Fisher will start pointing the eleven today toward the opening encounter with Rhode Island State on Saturday. Today will see Coach Knox's blackshirts in the Stadium for the first time, but before the week's drill is over the structure will hold no novelty for the scrubs who are to get a full dose of football before the week...
...past two weeks' practice has brought out several facts in regard to the outlook for the season. Coach fisher has already one of the most powerful first-string lines seen at Harvard in several years and the chances look good for the discovery of a first-string backfield combination which can approximate the line in excellence, yet there the happy outlook ends abruptly, Substitutes, will grounded in ability and experience, are painfully lacking. Either they must be developed or the first-string line-up must be brought through to the end of the season intact. And the latter task requires...
...Coach Fisher is "certain to spend a great deal of time on the team B men in the next few week and only at the end of that time will it bed possible to judge how strong the Crimson's threat in November will be. Injuries in even slightly more than normal numbers might ruin what promises to be an extraordinary eleven...
Fourteen new black jerseys were given out at the Locker Building today to five halfbacks, five quarterbacks, two ends and two line men who had survived Coach Fisher's first cut of the University squad on September 21. Fifty-two men now remain, but of these, Braden, Doherty, and Hammond are as yet ineligible to play. There are therefore less than fifty men available for the opening game with Rhode Island State next Saturday...
...Coach Fisher spared no one yesterday but tried out every one of the 65 men on the squad in the work. The veteran line was back intact again and looks almost certainly to be the exact forward combination which will start against Rhode Island a week from tomorrow. Gordon and K. N. Hill were back on the ends and Kernan was in again at center, flanked by Hubbard and Grew and Dunker and Eastman...