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...University team defeated Bowdoin in a fast game on Saturday by the score of 17 to 0. Harvard had little difficulty in gaining through and outside the opposing tackles; but the centre of the Bowdoin line was very strong. Harvard showed great improvement over its work in the Bates game. O'Flaherty at quarterback and Frothingham, who took Corbett's place early in the game, played brilliantly. O'Flaherty ran the team very well, used a good selection in his plays, sent off three forward passes without a failure and made several brilliant runs. Frothingham made a sensational dodging...
...result that a squad of 46 men was on hand, the largest number which has ever reported on the first day. The squad has steadily increased and now numbers, 80. The work for the first week was light, though the whole squad was daily given two sessions of practice. Great stress has been laid on those exercises which demand shiftiness and agility, such as dodging and crawling. The first scrimmage was held last Thursday, after a day or two of practice in breaking through for the line and signal practice for the backs. The squad has shown great improvement, every...
...Minot '11, who was ineligible last fall but played fullback on the second team throughout the season. In addition H. B. Sprague '11, also an "H" man, J. G. B. Perkins '11, T. Frothingham, Jr., '12, of last year's Freshman team, are fast men and show great promise; while G. E. Morrison '12 is a very good fullback...
Fabian Fall '10, of Boston, died by his own hand in Boston on Tuesday, August 17. His act is undoubtedly attributable to an aberration of mind, caused probably by undue exertion and exposure to the sun while in camp at the army manoeuvres. This strain was too great for a physique and mind already overtaxed with the year's work...
...championship. Sweetser alone survived the third round, thereby winning his way into the semi-finals, while Gardner, showing a reversal of form, was defeated by Long, of California, in a three-set match, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1. In the semi-final round Sweetser put up a great fight but was finally beaten by Long after four hard sets, 6-4, 6-8, 6-4, 11-9. In the final round, Johnson won the championship after playing five close sets with Long...