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...Coach Horween declared yesterday that he intends to start his first-string lineup against Tufts in the Stadium next Saturday. All of the Harvard players will be in shape by next Saturday, no injuries having been sustained against Dartmouth...
With all of the University squad in uniform yesterday except Bell and Simonds, Coach Horween permitted the men who had played most of the Dartmouth game to take things easy while he ordered a scrimmage against Coach Knox's second eleven for the University substitutes...
...current season. It has been less than four weeks since Harvard was defeated by Geneva, a college of little football reputation, and less than three weeks since it was defeated by Holy Cross, a college surely not of the first rank. Yet, under the tutelage of one Horween, Harvard had learned enough football by Saturday to defeat Dartmouth, which was said to have one of the best teams in the country. Could such a change be wrought in a baseball team in two short weeks? Hardly. Baseball is chiefly a game of skill, and it takes months and sometimes years...
...puzzling point about Saturday, however, is how Horween convinced his players that they had a chance to win. Ordinarily a team as badly rocked as Harvard was would require two or three games to gain confidence before it rode to glory at the end of the season. But at the first play Harvard showed the snap of a team that knows what it can do. This Horween must be a wonder. If he can do so much for Harvard, think what he could do for William G. McAdoo! --New York World, October...
...last Saturday afternoon, Coach Horween defeated a team using a six man line defense, and proved that against a good offense the principle of the roving center is useless, recalling a play worked out by W. H. Lewis '95 in 1898 to oppose the previously irresistible "guards back" formation...