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...University opens the 1926 football season at 3 o'clock this afternoon when the Crimson eleven meets the unusually powerful Geneva College team from Beaver Falls, Pa. On the ever of the first clash of the year, Coach Arnold W. Horween '21 made the following statement: "I realize we are meeting the hardest first game competition of any Harvard team in many years, but my team is as far along as can possibly be expected, and I feel that we will make a good showing...
Following the two hard scrimmage sessions which have featured the last week of preliminary football practice, Coach Horween put the University squad through a lighter workout yesterday afternoon. Yesterday's session consisted mostly of kicking drill and dummy scrimmage with particular emphasis on breaking up forward passes. The regulars were able to cope with most of the ariel attacks, few scrub passes being completed...
Following the preliminary kicking practice session inside the Stadium, and the routine dummy and signal drill Coach Horween sent for the second team and gave the University the ball on its own 15-yard line. It took just 11 plays for the varsity to put across the initial score. Stafford making the touchdown on a pretty forward pass from French. Sayles, playing fullback in the Team A offensive quartet added the extra point...
...task of rounding their men into shape for the opening of the series about October 15. Arrangements are now being made to bring about a meeting between the winning class teams of Harvard and Yale and the probable date for this clash will be November 12. Head Coach Horween of the University gridiron squad is a strong supporter of the inter-class program and the entire University coaching staff will be on the lookout for players of marked ability who will be raised to the Seconds or even to the University squads...
Work yesterday afternoon was confined to individual work. Ralph Horween '18, brother of the head coach and backfield tutor, had his charges punting early in the afternoon, while the ends were sent down under the kicks. Following a brief rest the squad was put through a hard, breaking through drill and then sent to work on the tackling dummy...