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With the opening of the college term, Yale men are straining every nerve to turn out winning teams in spite of their losing many of the old men. The eleven played their first game on Saturday with Wesleyan. Thus far the strength of the team seems to be in the old players, Gill, P. G., left tackle; Heffelfinger, '91 S., left guard; Rhoades, '91, right tackle; Harvey, '91, McClung, '92, half-backs, and Graves; '91, full back. Of the new men the most promising who have been playing on the first eleven are, Moyle '91, left end; Newell '90, center...
...following men will be at the gymnasium office, dressed, at 3.15 sharp. Mr. Lathrop will take charge of them: Morse, Tilton, Fitzhugh, Blanchard, Wrenn, Cummings, Goldthwaite, Cranston, Kelton, Stickney, Goodwin. Upton, Gorham, Dibblee, Crosby, Rodgers, Davenport, Curtis, '92, Kennedy. The following men will be on Jarvis, dressed, at 3.15 sharp: Trafford '93, Johnson, Dodge, Lee, Saxe, Bowman, Fearing, Greenough, Moen, Shea, Curtis '90, Miller, Dean, Halolwell, W. Crane, Burgess, Vail, Newell...
Class teams will play on the new athletic fields back of Divinity. Freshmen will report at 3, sharp, to Carpenter '88 and Hunt '92, who will coach them. '92 men will report at 3, sharp, to Forbes, captain. '91 men will report at 4, sharp, to Bass, captain. '90 men will report at 4, sharp, to Slocum, captain. It will be necessary that every man be ready, dressed, promptly at the time when he is wanted...
Work at football has now begun in earnest, and the men are all playing with a great deal of vim and determination. The loss of several of last year's best players is a serious drawback on the prospects of an eleven for this year, and Captain Cumnock evidently sees that to win against Yale or Princeton, he must make the most of the men he has and try to develop good men by hard and conscientious work...
Almost thirty men were chosen from those who came out last week, to undergo a daily rouiine of practice; the rushers under Mr. Lathrop, were given practice in tackling in the gymnasium, after which they practiced blocking and falling on the ball in the field...