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...that entire period we saw day by day, step by step, the preparations made on a greater scale than ever before. Our headquarters were some 20 miles from Amiens, on the national highway leading to Peronne, directly behind the sector of lines where the French troops have brought the heaviest pressure to bear...
From present indications Yale's 1916 football team promises to be the heaviest in several seasons. No team since the giant combination captained by Gordon Brown in 1900 has tipped the scales for more pounds. Three of the rush line weigh more than 200 pounds each, and one of the backfield is close to that weight. Zenner, from the freshman team last year is the champion heavy-weight of the combination, weighing 225 pounds. Zenner is rated as companion guard to Captain Black, another of the 200 pounders. The rush line alone averages 194 pounds...
Tomorrow will see what is regarded as one of the hardest contests of the season, the game with Tufts. The Medford aggregation is the heaviest hitting college combination of the season and the best team that Tufts has turned out for years. Up to date the visitors have lost but one game, while the University has been forced to accept three defeats...
Prospects for continued success were given a severe jolt last week when it was found that Captain Stafford had developed water on the knee after his collision with first baseman Palmer of the M. A. C. team in Tuesday's contest, and that outfielder Leland, the heaviest hitter on the team, had torn some ligaments in his leg. But with a patched-up team, the Middlebury aggregation was defeated on Thursday, mainly through Krepps's fine performance...
...Brown game, prove the team much better in both branches of baseball than it was at the same date last year. The team batting average, which in 1915 was .226, is now .239, and the fielding, formerly .944, is .956. Individual averages are proportionately higher. R. Harte '17, the heaviest hitter on the team, has 31 points more than last spring. Abbot, who batted only .140, has risen from ninth in the list to tie for fourth place among the regulars with Mahan, his present average being .277. C. L. Harrison '18, who heads the list, has played only...