Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Hallowell '61, and 50 members of classes previous to 1890. Then followed the classes in order of graduation, each with a banner. Upon their arrival on the field they cheered Coach Haughton and the undergraduates. The latter responded with enthusiastic cheers for the graduates, Coach Haughton, Captain Fish and the members of the team. The University team held a snappy five-minute signal drill and then retired to the Locker Building after cheering both the graduates and undergraduates...
...last secret football practice which was held yesterday afternoon in the Stadium the University team was given only light work. There was no scrimmage, but the second team lined up against the first for a short "dummy" scrimmage, in which Yale plays were used by the second eleven. Captain Fish and Hooper did not get into the signal work, for it was thought best to give both of them another day's rest. The usual preliminary work in catching and kicking punts was followed by signal drill, the regulars and substitutes forming separate teams. In the "dummy" work, the first...
Yesterday afternoon the University football squad was given a light secret signal drill in the Stadium. The whole squad was on the field and everybody but Captain Fish and Hooper was dressed to play. Had it been thought necessary, Captain Fish would also have been in the line-up, for all fears of a serious injury to him have vanished. The entire squad was in excellent condition, no one showing injuries worse than a few bruises...
...have confidence in Captain Fish's team. The fact that the coaching system which was successful last year is practically unchanged, the eight victories already won this fall, and the consistent improvement from game to game, encourage us to believe that the season of 1909 will end as well as did that...
Under these conditions the team is not to be unduly criticised if it plays a waiting game and uses an unvaried attack. As Captain Fish said in his speech at the last mass meeting, it is the Yale and not the Dartmouth game that counts, and it is by its showing next Saturday that the team is to be judged. It is in Harvard's favor that practically all of the men on the first squad are now in good condition and that the past week has seen greatly increased speed and accuracy in the work of the team...