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...Freshmen's diet was mixed a trifle yesterday, and team. A went through an informal workout against Skip Sherlock's protegees from the High School of Commerce. Most of the scrimmage was confined to dummy work with the linesmen half-blocking and touch-tackling. For ten minutes, though, the Yearlings mixed it up with the recent vanquishers of Erasmus Hall, a New York aggregation, scoring rapidly from the start at midfield. These results were encouraging in that several of the most valuable backs and linesmen were out of the play. In fact, the backfield was almost entirely substitutes...
...against B. U. Until last week he had been with the second squad, but now he has earned a claim as the teammate of L. C. Larrabee. Most noticeable of all, however, was the decided difference in the Freshmen's work as a team. Interference was more certain, more linesmen crashed through on the offense, and the whole eleven had more finish than it has had this season...
...will weigh practically as much as the University team. Harvard's opponents will come to Cambridge Saturday with two ends, a center, and two backs who would be able to gain positions on any big college team in the country. Supplementing these men will be a powerful quartet of linesmen and an unusually effective backfield. Besides this, Coach Moran can play his first team to the limit from the beginning of the game because he has an ample number of substitutes to call upon in case of necessity...
...hard nut for the Fisherites to crack, after they had once penetrated the cloud of secrecy which surrounded the team. During the first half of the game, the Crimson players seemed to be worried by the uncertainty of what they were up against--the interference was ragged, the linesmen charged feebly, and the backs ran listlessly, often stopping up before they were tackled. As the game progressed and the Westerners failed to uncork any weird plays or aerial attacks, the home eleven gained assurance, and played, in the second half, an aggressive game which netted three touchdowns...
Yesterday the black-jerseyed back-fielders passed and kicked the ball, while the linesmen were getting some fine points on "breaking through" from Coach Knox. After work on the charging machine, the emphasis was laid for the rest of the afternoon on signal practice, both in groups and in a dummy scrimmage...