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...University football team defeated Bates yesterday afternoon by the decisive score of 33 to 4, in a game which showed the steady development which the University team is undergoing. The game was full of brilliant end runs, coupled with long gains from blocked kicks and well-perfected forward passes, so that the spectators were kept in a continual state of excitement. The work of the quarterbacks of both teams was of a very high order, and many long gains were made in running back kicks...
...improvement shown by the University team over the form in the Bowdoin game a week ago, was strongly noticeable. Forward passes and clever onside kicks were run off with promising smoothness, and long gains were made from a double pass which the opposing ends seemed unable to solve...
...Game in Detail...
...University football team will play the last mid-week game of the season in the Stadium this afternoon at 4 o'clock against Bates. Last year, Bates was very weak and was defeated 27 to 6; scoring their touchdown by the advantageous use of the forward pass and the quarterback kick. The Bates team this year is fast, but light, and the heavier University team should have little difficulty in gaining through the line. Cobb at quarterback, and Brown and Cummings, ends, proved very clever at the new game last year and repeatedly outplayed the Harvard forwards with their double...
...will require a great deal of coaching. Rand is being given a try-out at right half. He is a fast and an able back, and with a little more weight would be valuable. At fullback, Mason will play in place of Apollonio, who is out of the game temporarily with a slight injury. For the old style, line-plunging game, Mason makes an excellent fullback, his strength, weight, and hard-fighting qualities all counting in his favor...