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...seen to be the better team. Princeton supporters, therefore, have good cause to look forward this season to the first victory over Yale in many years. Both elevens have unusual reasons for feeling that a victory is necessary and it is safe--to say--that the game will be hard-fought, desperate football from the start. If Princeton wins, the 1911 football championship is settled; if Yale wins, it will require a defeat by Harvard next Saturday to give Princeton any further claim to the highest football honor. On the other hand if Yale wins both games, its defeat...
...University second baseball team won from Waltham High School on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon in a hard-fought ten-inning game, by the score of 4 to 3. Bolton was easily the star, driving out two home runs, the second one winning the game for the University...
...Boston Hockey Club defeated the Cliffside team of Ottawa at the Boston Arena on Saturday, by the score of 4 to 3. The game was hard-fought and exciting with the outcome in doubt until the end. The Canadians were faster skaters, but this advantage was offset by the superior team-play of the Hockey Club. For the Cliffsides McKinley, at goal, did the best work, while Sortwell and Hicks excelled for the Hockey Club...
...week later the University team played Brown, and won a hard-fought game, 12 to 0. The line showed decided weakness in this game, and the play, in general, was slow. The first touchdown came near the end of the first half after L. D. Smith recovered a kick which Marble had muffed. From the 11-yard line, Corbett and Wendell made 5 yards in two rushes, and then Corbett went over for the score. The second touchdown was made by Graustein in the middle of the last period. Brown had carried the ball through Harvard territory for 88 yards...
While there were only two bumps yesterday, both races were spirited and hard-fought contests, and those crews which did not bump nevertheless exerted themselves to the very finish. A considerable number of undergraduates watched the races from the bank...