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...Fourteen candidates for the Cricket eleven gathered on the Cambridge Cricket club grounds for a practice game Saturday. Balch and Garrett chose sides and a close and exciting game was played, with a final score of 54 to 51 in favor of Balch's team. The best scores were made by Sullivan, 21, Garrett, 12 not out, and T. S. Lee, 11. Hewes did some good bowling, taking three wickets on three successive balls, and a total of five wickets for 17 runs. The crease proved very fair, much better than the one at Watertown...
...Phillips Exeter Academy team defeated Technology at Exeter by a score of fourteen to nothing. The game was well fought and characterized by many brilliant plays. Exeter showed great improvement...
...very near Exeter's goal and it was soon forced over the line by Bowman, giving the first touchdown to Harvard in five minutes. Goal by Trafford. Borden started off with the ball but was quickly downed. The ball was then passed to Struthers who muffed it and lost fourteen yards. The ball was again passed to Struthers who gained ten yards by a kick. Harvard then got the ball and Bowman advanced it by a couple of fine rushes, but was beautifully tackled by Heffelfinger. Rushes by Bowman and Johnson then brought the ball almost upon the goal line...
...husbands or wives of their children for they believe that all men's souls are but a part of the great soul. Hence the girles are wedded at six or seven years old, and go to live with their husbands at the age of thirteen or fourteen. In case the husband dies, the wife remains with her father-in-law, and is never reduced to beggary. The widow cannot marry again for she is thought to have lost her husband on account of some former sin, which must be expiated. These customs on the whole produce happy unions, and devoted...
There are fourteen candidates for the four backs on the freshman eleven...