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...final game for the class championship in football will be played tomorrow afternoon between the senior and sophomore elevens...
...present it is very improbable that the annual Andover-Exeter foot ball game will be placed this fall. The game had been arranged for the ninth of November, but the Andover faculty has refused to allow the team to go to Exeter, as usual, to play the game. As a result of this decision it is said that the Exeter eleven has gone out of training...
...following are the results of the other foot ball games played on Saturday: Yale defeated Columbia, at the Berkeley Oval in New York by a score of 62 to nothing; Princeton beat the University of Pennsylvana at Philadelphia in the first championship game by an overwhelming score of 72 to 4. Technology beat Amherst in a championship game at Amherst by the close score of 10 to 9. The game was protested by Amherst. The Phillips Andover academy team defeated the Yale freshmen 14 to nothing. Cornell and Lehigh were scheduled to play a game at Bethlehem, but when...
...side play. Saxe stopped Hall's punt, and Dean and Cumnock dropped on the ball. Lee found the hole made for him by Cumnock, and scored at 3.42. Saxe kicked the goal. Score 26-0. At this point the eleven braced wonderfully, and during the rest of the game completely outplayed their opponents. The ball had scarcely been put in play, when Dean broke through the line, secured the ball on Peck's pass, rushed half the length of the field, hotly pursued by Slayback, and scored a touchdown at 3.45. Goal. Score 32-0. By Cumnock's excellent tackling...
Saturday afternoon at Exeter the freshman eleven won a game which was loosely played on both sides. Exeter's game was especially unsteady, while the work of the freshmen at times was execrable. Their tackling could hardly have been poorer, while there was hardly any attempt at blocking off. The rushers were slow in dropping on the ball, but they got through well, and showed considerable snap. The half-backs played a fair rushing game, but their tackling also was high and anything but effective. Johnson as full-back played a fine rushing and kicking game, and he and Kendricken...