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Below is given a resume of the scores made in the tennis tournament which have been given before as they were played. The tournament, despite the lax method in which it was conducted has been moderately successful. The number of players engaged was large and some of the play excellent. Unfortunately, Mr. Taylor was unable to contest on account of the accident which he met with at Hartford. Before another tournament is held we all hope that the number and quality of the courts will be better...
...freshman lacrosse twelve on Saturday went to New Haven and played the first freshman game against Yale. The team arrived in New Haven considerably tired, and had to eat dinner at once and rush out to the park. For these reasons their play at first, was lax, and the men failed to cover properly, letlay at first, was lax, and the men failed to cover properly, letting the Yale men run around them. In consequence the ball was kept dangerously near to the Harvard goal, and after about fifteen minutes play, the first goal for Yale was thrown by Pennell...
...Canadians having the kick-off this time. This half of the game was characterized by some magnificent playing on the part of the Canadians. The beautiful runs of Perram and Taylor, and the kicks of Wilmot and Scriver, were duly appreciated by the spectators. Nor were the Harvards lax in their endeavors to increase their score, though their play as a whole was not so brilliant as in the first half of the game. Herrick made a fine diagonal run, gaining half the length of the field, and followed it up soon after with a touch-down some distance...
...during the last four or five years - since we count our annual defeat - the discipline of the men has been not as severe as in the days when we carried off the flags on Lake Quinsigamond. Mr. Watson of '69 agreed with Mr. Loring that the discipline had become lax, and that we put off the formation of the crew until too late, and added that he believed in long runs and "many strokes" at the weights...