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Foxhall Keene, '91, who was injured in Friday's practice will not be able to play again this season...
Pennsylvania presented a strong team and Harvard had much harder work to win than the score indicates. Harvard's general play was somewhat disappointing. At times her work was brilliant while at others it was extremely loose. The rush line failed to block well, and Pennsylvania had little trouble in finding holes in it. The tackling except on the part of 3 or 4 men was high and at times far from effective. The blocking off all through the game was weak and much poorer than that in the Wesleyan game of a week ago. In the rush line Hutchinson...
...gained twenty yards. Cumnock broke through and downed Dewey before he could get started with the ball. Thayer kicked and Saxe returned and the ball was at Pennsylvania's fifteen yard line. Hulme and Thayer made no gain but Harvard lost five yards on P. Trafford's off-side play. Harvard secured the ball and Blanchard, Fearing and Saxe advanced it. Harvard was given five yards for Pennsylvania's off side play and Saxe on the second down, pushed across the line and secored. Time 15 minutes. Goal by Trafford. Score 6-0. Winsor was substituted for Shannon. After...
...Trafford picked up the leather and rushed 15 yards. Lee and Saxe fumbled badly, but Harvard luckily kept the ball. On Saxe's fumble again, Pennsylvania got the ball and Hulme, Valentine and Dewey advanced it twenty-five yards nearer Harvard's line. On a foul Harvard got the play and Lee made fifteen yards. Harding made a poor pass to Lee who finally got the ball and then dropped it. Hulme made six yards, but Church, Pennsylvania's quarterback, tried to run with the ball, and the referee gave it to Harvard on a foul play...
...expectations of a well played and closely contested game with Pennsylvania were fully realized and the one sided score does not show how hard Harvard had to work to win. Pennsylvania played a hard and tricky game and was only kept from scoring by the sharpest work. Several times the ball was carried the length of the field by short, quick rushes, which the Harvard rush line seemed unable to check. The other weak points in Harvard's play were poor passing, fumbling by the halfbacks, and inability of the rush line to hold their opponents long enough to give...