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...three features which yesterday marked the progress of the celebration were interesting and attended by innumerable crowds, and therefore successful in the extreme. The cold, clear weather undoubtedly had much to do with this result, as many ladies and alumni would otherwise have been unable to attend the exercises. Such an accident, however, we should have deemed far from unfortunate, thinking as we are of the fearful crush which accompanied each one of yesterday's happenings. To recount the lectures of the morning service is to tell how enjoyable they were. The full anniversary chorus of the Glee Club sang...
...ball was worked down the field a little way. Porter tried to catch the ball on the bounce with the result that Sears had to drop on the ball to save it. By hard luck Fletcher passed the ball to the referee instead of to the halfback. Wesleyan's ball. Harding stopped the next rush, and a minute later Holden got through the line and caught the ball. He ran the length of the field making a touch-down, from which Woodman kicked a goal. The ball soon got into Harvard's hands again, and Faulkner made a pretty rush...
...half-backs kick the ball and the rush line can get down before the opposing half-back can catch the ball, they keep pretty well together; but when the kick has been a little too long they go straggling down the field at full speed, with the usual result that the other half-back dodges two or three of them and gets pretty well up the field again before he is stopped. Then everybody in the rush line, almost without exception, tackles too high, though there has been some improvement in this of late. The rush line drop...
...tournament was continued yesterday with the following result...
...team a good example, was fully as bad, if not worse than the rest of the men in this respect, time and time again jumping way up in the air in order to tackle a man not as tall as himself, and one who ducked as he ran. The result was bad. During the first half hour Stevens had the lower goal and the wind against them, so that they found it necessary to play a running game almost entirely, while Harvard, whose duty and intention it was to rely on their kicking for this half, did little but fumble...