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What is the matter with football at Harvard? Even with three of the best men out of the game, was the supply of good men so meagre that Harvard could not make inroads on the Amherst line...
...remarkably bad, but the dash and drive of the team indicated possibilities of development that have not even been suggested before. Six fumbles in the first half alone, five of which resulted in the loss of the ball, contributed to the smallness of the score. Poor holding of the line and unsteady starting of the backs were among other bad features, but considering the practice as a whole, it was the most encouraging of the season...
...only a secondary element. The longest single gain was made by Mills, when he scored his touchdown on a 13-yard plunge through center. In the second half the team again showed its great fault of last year in losing the ball after carrying it almost to the goal line. In this instance, however, it scored a safety by breaking through and taking advantage of a fumbled pass behind the goal. The satisfactory results of the practice were due largely to the excellent playing of the second eleven...
...line-up: FIRST ELEVEN. SECOND ELEVEN. Le Moyne, Bartels, l.e. r.e., Burgess, Derby, Sawyer Parkinson, Davy, l.t. r.t., Lehmann, Carr Bleakie, Brown, l.g. r.g., Pierce Carrick, Pell, c. c., Wilder, Sloan Coburn, Wilder, r.g. l.g., McFadden, Squires Knowlton, Lehmann, r.t. l.t., Mercer, Meier Montgomery, r.e. l.e., Clothier, Lane, Blagden Noyes, Leonard, q.b. q.b., Leonard, Goodhue, Elkins Nesmith, Randall, l.h.b. r.h.b., Dodge, Hurd Hurley, Schoellkopf, r.h.b. l.h.b., Cruger, Randall, Snyder, Kent Hanley, Mills, Harrison, f.b. f.b., Mills, Harrison, Spefry
...Yale line-up was as follows: l.e., Rafferty, Moorhead; l.t., Kinney, Andrews; l.g., Morton, Batchelder; c., Roraback; r.g., Bloomer; r.t., Hogan; r.e., Shevlin; q.b., Rockwell; l.h.b., Mitchell; r.h.b., Metcalf, Preston; f.b., Bowman, Hoyt...