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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...indications presented in yesterday's practice can form a fair basis for assumption, the present period of development in the University eleven is a critical one. At no time has the main difficulty which the coaches have encountered stood out more clearly in the path of the team's progress; the squad seems discouragingly slow to learn. The great inexperience of the men in comparison to other years is probably the main reason for this, but it is certain that the training given cannot possibly be as complete as that which last year's eleven received, for the apparent slowness...
...scrimmage during the last week has served to round the men into excellent form and to develop the team into an efficient football machine. In scrimmages early in the week with the second squad the team showed up finely and as a result the work yesterday was light. Head Coach L. Saltonstall '14 has been drilling the men, especially the backfield, in the fine points of the game...
...feature of the drill was the successful drop-kicking of Captain Mahan, Robinson, and Whitney. This form of attack was the only one used from scoring position, and the large number of successive goals from the 20, 25, 30, and 35-yard lines would seem to indicate that great stress is to be laid on this method of scoring. Captain Mahan went through the drill with but one error, and that from the 45-yard line. His kicking was remarkably consistent...
...second football squad has been cut to 35 players, and the remaining men have formed a team to play in the series. The general direction of the series this year will be in the hands of D. Miller '16, who is unable to play football because of an injury. Men can form their own teams, elect their own captains, use their own style of play, and be independent organizations. Men signing individually will be divided up into teams by Coach Guild of the second team...
There will also be some discussion by undergraduates. The object of the meeting is to stir up interest among the members of the University in the Suffrage Victory Parade on Saturday afternoon. A number of professors have promised to march and about five hundred students are expected. They will form a Harvard contingent in the university section of the parade, in which there will be representatives from all the chief New England colleges...