Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prior to the regular session, William Murray, who was captain and quarter back of the 1919 Harvard eleven and who has been scouting Michigan this fall, gave the squad a talk on the various Wolverine formations. There was no demonstration of these plays, but this afternoon will undoubtedly find the Crimson eleven's in a brief skeleton drill against the Ann Arbor team's attack...
This year, however, on the week-end of the Michigan game Freshmen in good standing will be allowed the privileges of upper classmen so far as af- tendance upon the last class before the holiday is concerned. That is, they will not necessarily be placed on probation if they cut the last class before the November 11th holiday. However, if they do take such cuts and their records subsequently become in any particular unsatisfactory, these cuts will weigh heavily against them...
...headlights of seven automobiles will be pressed into service tonight, tomorrow, and Thursday evenings to furnish illumination for the practice of the Harvard Band on the enclosed practice field, in preparation for the Michigan game. Laboratory work in the afternoons will prevent a great many of the members of the Band from practicing during the day, so that night practice has been resorted to in order to give the players the necessary drill before they go to Ann Arbor. However, regular practice will be held Friday afternoon...
...Crimson eleven played under wraps throughout, wary of showing anything to Fielding H. Yost, former Michigan mentor, who was in the stands scouting for the Wolverines. Only once did Harvard show anything new, when on the march for the initial touchdown, the backfield lined up in a semi-kick formation. The touchdown made, the old formation with a back in motion was resumed again...
Wilfred B. Shaw, former alumni secretary of the University of Michigan, in an article in the current Scribners finds that the college alumni of this country are wrongly criticized in showing interest only in football games. He lays the fault for this restriction of interest squarely upon the colleges themselves. In the past, athletics and endowment drives have been the only connections by which the colleges have attempted to keep in touch with their alumni. In the future, be predicts, the colleges will make a definite attempt to keep up academic relations with their graduates. giving them the opportunity...