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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...leave space for several bedrooms for graduates and graduate coaches who may be working with one of the teams. It is intended that in the future the University Club shall be a general rallying place for the students, and, in a measure, take the place of the old Fence...
Pennsylvania's old guards back formation was useless. It is a play which requires a strong team to back it, and even then it has been proved ineffective against a team of equal strength. The few gains the Pennsylvania players were able to make were on clever trick plays and on a variation of Princeton's old revolving wedge. At one time only did they get the ball within Harvard's 25-yard line, when Wallace ran 30 yards, but then they could make no impression on Harvard's line. In the first half Barnard tried a goal from...
...very few sound strained. "There's Just One Girl," by Edward Richard, is a frail story of the expanded daily theme type, which, while it shows a good deal of cleverness of an observant sort, proves beyond doubt that the writer has no knowledge of human nature. In "Old and New," J. H. Cabot, 2nd, '00, undertakes to delineate the character of a Casco Bay "islander," and fails completely. "Perquisites," by John G. Cole sC., and "A Fiasco," by R. W. Gray '01, are sketches of the usual daily theme type...
With the prestige of a victorious season behind them and with the confidence of more successes to come, thirty-five men reported for the first practice on Monday, September 18. The old players to return, in addition to Captain Burden, were Boal, Hallowell, Daly and Warren, and later Eaton, Swain, Burnett and Donald. With this nucleus of old players has been built up a Harvard eleven which today stands stronger than last year's at the same date, and which conservative experts have declared to be the strongest eleven that has ever represented the University. The slump that came last...
...plays have again been the strongest against the smaller colleges, but line plunging, which was so successful against Pennsylvania last year, has been worked up to a better state of development than ever before. Four or five tricks have been taught for emergencies, but they are all upon old principles...