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Dennison, L. S., formerly half-back on the Andover and Dartmouth teams, was out playing with the 'varsity eleven yesterday...
...present is foot ball. From present indications we have reason to expect a very good team. Cowan, Hodge, Bovaird, Irvine, Ames, George and Channing, of last year's eleven, are back, and Cook, ex-'89, has returned to college and is playing his old position-Moray, who played half-back for Andover last year, is playing a fine game, while Akerman, Bickham, Janeway, Poe, Riggs and Ferdinand may also be mentioned as promising candidates. The management has arranged for eight practice games with Crescents, U. of Penn., Stevens, Rutgers, Lafayette and Johns Hopkins, five of them to be played...
...Yale News of Sept. 28th contains the interesting information that Ames, the Princeton half-back of last year, will not return to college this fall. The record made by this player in the Lehigh game here on Saturday is sufficient refutation of this statement.-Princetonian...
Dennison, formerly half-back on the Andover and Dartmouth teams is a candidate for the 'Varsity eleven...
...practice on the field, the men were put through rush line and tackling practice in the gymnasium. The following men are candidates for the rush line: Rantoul, Cook, Churchill, Allen, Cheeney, Freeman, Clark, Hawes. Berry, R. Agassiz, Putnam, Travis, Barter, Henry and Brooks; for quarterback, Mann, Neff, Preston; for half-back, Hill, Draper, Carpenter; for full-back, Barter and Forbes. The men are all unusually light and will have to work hard to make up for this disadvantage in weight. The bad weather has probably kept some men from coming out for practice. In all probability more candidates will present...