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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...difficult to detect a single redeeming feature in the playing of the University eleven on Saturday. With only a week before the game for which the entire season is preparatory, there still remain several fundamentals of football to be learned by the players. After the first two minutes, the team did not pretend to play hard football. Of course the wet ball and the slippery field excused many faults, but the team has overcome these difficulties in other games. The game Saturday showed a reaction, perhaps a slump...
...great fault in the Harvard team was fumbling. Seven times during the game, Harvard lost the ball to Dartmouth on fumbles, which is omitting the times the ball was fumbled and recovered by Harvard lost the ball to Dartmouth on fumbles, which is omitting the times the ball was fumbled and recovered by Harvard men. The work of Kendall and Fincke was ragged. Again and again they attempted to pick up the ball on fumbles instead of dropping on it. These errors and frequent offsides gave the ball to Dartmouth at critical times, and prevented much scoring by Harvard...
Andover defeated Exeter last Saturday in their annual football game by the score of 17 to 0. The game was played on a very wet field which gave Andover's heavier team a great advantage. Both teams were weak in catching punts, but Exeter's fumbles were the more costly...
...punt. The next touchdown was made in the first six minutes of the second half, principally by tackle and end plays. Captain Davis of the Andover team outplayed his opponent and made good holes for the runner whenever he was called upon. Toward the end of the game Exeter held for downs on her four yard line, but after the ball had been kicked out of danger, Andover scored another touchdown by successive plunges through the tackles. The game was called on account of darkness...
...Harvard Chess Club was defeated Saturday night by the Boston Young Men's Christian Union with a score of 12 1 - 2 to 6 1 - 2. One game was unfinished and will be adjudicated this week. On Wednesday there will be a match with the Somerville Y.M.C.A., in which seven men will play on a side...