Word: groton
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...Freshman football team will play its third game of the season this afternoon with Exeter Academy on Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock. So far this season the Freshmen have won the two games they have played, the first from Groton School by the score of 9 to 0, and the second from Andover Academy, 6 to 0. Exeter has played six games, winning four, having defeated Yale 1913, 6 to 0, and losing two, and has a well-developed, well-balanced eleven, with several experienced veterans from last year's team. Captain Downing of Exeter is in the infirmary...
...Freshman football team will play its second game of the season with Andover this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock at Andover. In their first game last Saturday, the Freshmen defeated Groton by the score of 9 to 0. Since then they have been given a week of hard practice, concluding their preparation for the Andover game with a long signal drill yesterday afternoon...
...Freshman football team was put through a long, hard practice yesterday in an endeavor to eradicate some of the faults which came to light in the Groton game. The practice began with a short drill in tackling the dummy. This was followed by a long session in kicking, in which Frothingham, Lewis and Marsh punted to the first team's backs, with the second string backs forming the interference against the ends. Later, several new plays were tried out, and the coaches illustrated breaking through the line. Eckfeldt, Goodale, Keays and Meiss were excused from practice on account of injuries...
Soon after the beginning of the second half, Groton tried a forward pass, but fumbled, Lewis recovering the ball for the Freshmen in the middle of the field. Wendell carried the ball to Groton's 3-yard line in three plays, and on the next rush scored a touchdown. Lewis kicked the goal...
Score--Harvard 1913, 9; Groton, 0. Touchdown--Wendell. Goal from touchdown--Lewis. Goal from field--Lewis. Umpire--Bankart. Referee--Cross. Fieldjudge--Peabody. Timer--Abbot. Linesmen--T. H. Frothingham '12 and Parker, Groton. Time--20 and 15-minute halves. HARVARD 1913. GROTON. Hollister, J. Parker, l.e. r.e., Lothrop Lingard, l.t. r.t., C. Curtis Goodale, Driscoll, l.g. r.g., L. Curtis F. Parker, Cutler, c. c., Atkinson Keays, Godfrey, r.g. l.g., Paine Felton, r.t. l.t., Gardiner, Pyne Chadwick, Proctor, White, r.e. l.e., Dana, Wharton Gardner, q.b. q.b., Colt Graustein, Bartlett, l.h.b. r.h.b., Hardwick, Biddle Wendell, r.h.b. l.h.b., Wright, Schiefflin Lewis, f.b. f.b., Smith...