Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...old editor of the Harvard Advocate condemns a sketch in our last number as "indecent in conception and disgusting in matter...
Realizing perfectly that the impulse of the reader who comes upon the words "loyal support of the eleven" is to toss his paper aside with some such remark as "the same old drool," we nevertheless once more venture a few words on the subject...
...they came more from the weakness of the opposing team than anything else. The freshmen in the class championship series were chiefly noted for their snappy playing. In Saturday's game at times they played as if they were in a trance. If they had kept anywhere near their old form, the score would have easily been one-third larger. They outclassed their opponents at about every point and had some fine plays, nearly all of which worked well...
...HAVEN, CONN., NOV. 16. - "Billy" Bull spent the day with the Yale team. In the morning he coached Butterworth, and in the afternoon gave the other players valuable instruction. Yale will make use of very few tricks this year as Hinckey believes firmly in the superiority of the straight, old-fashioned game. Consequently the principal stress is laid on the interference, the improvement of which will be the chief aim of the practice in the time that remains. Jerrems showed up very well today and is pushing Armstrong hard or right half back...
Already complaints have begun to be made against the corps of coaches who have superintended the work of the football eleven this year. It is claimed that proper effort has not been made to bring to Cambridge all the old football men who might be of service. We are authorized to state that no stone has been left unturned to induce such men as Cumnock, Holden and Perry Trafford to join the coaching force, but that they have all refused on the ground of press of business. Dr. Brooks and the other graduate advisers have been so earnest in their...