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...informal eleven tested its offensive power against the Navy Yard team in a long workout yesterday afternoon. No opportunity was given the sailors to carry the ball so that no comparison of the teams can be made. By line drives and off-tackle plays the informals carried the ball across the line three times from the middle of the field. A. Horween '20, scored two of the touchdowns, and it. Hoffman '19, the other...
...gains. Coach Rollins played in the informal backfield the greater part of the scrimmage in place of L. Crosscup '19, who injured his leg in the first few plays. C. F. Weden '20, within five minutes of the start of play crossed the Freshman goalline on a five-yard line plunge, following a 15-yard gain by H. L. Whitney '20, on a forward pass...
...cross-country schedule, but reputed to have a strong group of runners. D. F. O'Connell '21, captain of the Freshman team is favored to win individual honors because of his good showing last Saturday, when he was the first man from the University to cross the finish line in the New England Athletic Union championships. Several other members of the Freshman team should do well over the Belmont course, among them B. W. Boyden and J. E. Nally...
...half an hour the teams battled in the middle of the field with the coaches directing the plays. The informals on line plunges and off-tackle drives at one time carried the ball from their 20-yard line to within 15 yards of another score. The attack failing at this point, Coolidge tried a forward pass to P. D. Steele, uC., but the latter dropped the ball as he crossed the line...
Both teams have not had much practice but every player is an individual marvel or he would never be on the field. The undergraduate sympathy will doubtless be with the Navy for its line-up contains four men who, if this were a normal year, would be representing the University. Clark, Murray, Casey and Enwright will all start the game; it is Casey's first appearance in the Stadium since we watched him wriggle through the Princeton line last year...