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Herman has played well and hard, his kicks are sure if not long and as full-back he is the best tackler in the squad. Fincke is very promising. He rushes and tackles well but misses his tackles too often to be reliable. He is cool and catches well...
...nucleus of Yale's Track Athletic Team has also been chosen. The men are mostly new candidates, who have not "won Yale sweaters" before. The only very promising sprinter is W. M. Richards son of Professor Richards. He has good endurance from his experience as substitute full-back on the eleven. There are two other good men for the half-mile run and for the 440 yards dash, G. M. Laughlin and G. S. Frank. The fastest man for the quarter-mile run is H Chubb, though Butterworth is a good man. Scoville and Morgan will run the mile...
Bertram G. Waters, before coming to Harvard, played football for two years on the Boston Latin School eleven. Here he first played at full-back and in his last year, when he was captain of the team, at end rush and half back. On the freshman team he was put at end rush again and next year on the 'varsity at tackle. This year he was moved to left guard and did excellent work there. He is twenty-one years old and with his two years of 'varsity training will fill his position very successfully...
Captain Carter, full-back on the Technology eleven, will enter Cornell next year...
...Brewer for a kick. Off it went, curving and twisting through the air for 40 yards, and all the field watched Butterworth as he stood ready for the catch. A shout of joy went up from the Harvard stand when that ball came down, for it struck the Yale full-back fair on the chest and then bounced off again and fell into Hallowell's waiting arms. Harvard's ball again, and now at the centre of the field once more. Brewer was the first Harvard back to run with the ball, but Wallis was ready...