Word: player
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nearest rival. Wadsworth may come from the 'varsity and possibly shut out Valentine. though he is not so quick. Shepard at left half runs hard, but does not use his eyes and fumbles the ball frightfully. Gibbs, the other half, is a good ground gainer and a hard player, but seems a bit overworked at present, as in fact does Shepard. Manning is a fixture at fullback, having had good training with the 'varsity last year. Flint is the next choice for the position...
...West Point team did not put up as strong a game as was expected, its playing should be a valuable lesson to every football player at Harvard, as an example of what can be accomplished by earnest application, under the most unfavorable circumstances. The strict discipline which is manitained at the military academy makes it impossible for the football players to have more than fifteen minutes each day for practice. An exception is made on Saturday, when they are allowed an hour and twenty minutes for a game, and on one other day in the week when they are given...
CHESS CLUB.- Regular weekly meeting at 7, Tuesday evening, in 1 Thayer Hall. Mr. J. F. Barr, the strongest resident chess player of New England, will play simultaneous games. All chess players in the University are again invited to attend the meeting and especially to enter the tournament, by signing the blue-book at Bartlett's and paying the entrance fee of fifty cents...
...first two players in the final round will play successively the champion of the club (in the present year, Harold Lewis '96), for the championship. But if the present champion beat the first player in the tournament, he need not play with the second player in the tournament, and may enter the intercollegiate tournament at New York...
Heffelfinger, the ex-Yale football player will coach the eleven at the University of Minnesota this fall...