Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Freshman eleven by the score of 14 to 0. Both teams played well but Groton gained a great deal of ground on trick plays, using the double pass and criss-cross to good effect. In punting also Groton was superior, and this together with the fumbling of the Freshmen was in a great measure the cause of their defeat...
Groton's score was made by two touchdowns, both goals being kicked, and a safety by the Freshmen...
...Freshman eleven would like to play an eleven made up of freshmen not on present squad, on any day except...
...team. But the improvement in the playing of the eleven has not been accompanied by an increase in the interest shown by the class in its work. There has been if possible a lessening of the interest. Yesterday, at an important game against the team which played the Yale Freshmen a close game, there were but twenty-two tickets sold and of these less than half were held by Freshmen...
...have been blamed for having the enthusiasm more of a body of third year Graduates studying for a doctorate than of young and enthusiastic first year men. But such lethargy, such a lack of class spirit, such disheartening and selfish indifference to everything except their own private interests, no Freshmen, within the memory or knowledge of any present undergraduate, have shown. They will have no one to blame but themselves, if the eleven, stirred by no interest or support by their classmates, lose any feeling of responsibility they may have and fail to win the one important game...