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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...side lines would appear in sufficient numbers to warrant a score by one of the teams and it was usually the team that had the most friends among the spectators that secured the victory. This was perhaps a relic of the ancient by-gone days when in no less of an affair than a championship intercollegiate contest the sympathizers of one of the contending teams swarmed on the field at the psychological moment and wrenched the goal posts form the ground to prevent their opponents from scoring a goal in the old-fashioned game...
...consisted of preliminary drill in tackling, kicking and catching punts for the backs and breaking through for the line men, followed by signal practice and scrimmages between the first and second eleven or substitutes. During the secret practice the preliminary work has been discontinued and the scrimmages have been less frequent...
...tail-piece is a convincing vision of prophecy fulfilled,--a fulfillment heralded by many a timely dig in the intervening pages at our "dearest foe." Apart from the local color cast upon it by the shadow of coming events, the number strikes us as no more or less than most Lampoons. Some of the jokes and poems are funny and cleverly done, but they seem no more appropriate to the Lampoon than they would be to a publication of similar end and nature in any other college, or for that matter to any "funny paper" in general. One realizes perhaps...
...purpose of this comment to attempt an accurate definition of a complete and successful football system, either in the abstract or in relation to this season's work. Perhaps a definition in words of theoretical explanation would be less intelligible than a simple analysis of that organization which has proved itself the best adapted to successful football in the past twenty years. There is one element in the Harvard organization in effect this year which has already proved its worth. For the first time since we can remember the Freshman team has been included as one of the units...
...Union boathouse. The third crew will start first, ten seconds ahead of the second crew, which will in turn start ten seconds ahead of the first. It was hoped that the race could be over the four-mile course, but owing to the fact that there have been less than the usual number of long practice rows it was deemed advisable to substitute the three-and-one-half-mile course...