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...University football team will play the University of Maine in the Stadium this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The Maine team is considerably lighter than the Harvard team but is fast and has not been scored on in any of its games this season. Three games have been played; the Massachusetts Agricultural College held Maine to a 0 to 0 tie, but Fort McKinley was defeated 6 to 0, and New Hampshire State College 16 to 0. Last year the University team won a 16 to 0 victory over Maine in the second game of the season...
During the past week a number of the regular man have been out of the game, so that the Harvard team has not developed very fast. Perkins has been tried at centre with P. Withington at his old position at guard. However, as Perkins was slightly hurt in the scrimmage on Thursday, the line will be the same as in the previous games, with the exception of Captain Fish, whose position will be filled by L. Withington. The backfield will have Frothingham, Leslie and Long, three men who have shown up well during the week's practice, and O'Flaherty...
...importance of winning the first game of the season is emphasized for the Freshman football team by the fact that today's game marks also the beginning of four years of class activity, in which athletics will have first place. Every class wishes to be represented by winning teams, able always to play the game a little better than their opponents. It is an ideal worth striving for, but it demands self-sacrifice from the class as individuals in the support of teams by which the class as a whole is represented...
...Haven, Conn., October 15, 1909.--Yale will play the fifth game of its schedule with the United States Military Academy at West Point tomorrow. Johnson will do most of the kicking for Yale. Coy, Deming, and Logan will still be unable to play. In a ten-minute scrimmage between the university and second teams this afternoon Hobbs played an excellent defensive game for the university team and Holt made consistent gains for the second...
...annual dividend of the Harvard Co-operative Society is to be declared about a week before the Yale game. The dividend will be approximately 8 per cent., the same per cent. as last year, when it was the largest in the history of the Society. The annual meeting of the directors will be held in the course of a few weeks...