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...wish through your columns to correct a statement which has lately appeared. No such organization as the Harvard University Ice Polo Team exists. The games with Cambridge Latin have been scrub games and most of the players participating have been non-Harvard men. Harvard men object to having their names used in connection with mythical organizations...
...HAVEN, CONN., Nov. 27. - The Yale football eleven this afternoon lined up for practice on the 'varsity field, but did not oppose the scrub team as the coaches have changed their policy and will not work the candidates as rigorously as they declared after the Harvard game that they would. The team took about an hour's drill in going through the signals. The surprise of the day was that Butterworth was out and in uniform. He resumed his old position as fullback and showed that he was in as good form as ever. The injury...
...Harvard football season virtually began in the spring, when for a few weeks Captain Emmons put to work the football aspirants not engaged in other branches of athletics. From those who made the best showing in the final scrub game, also from the other football players in college, and the best men on interscholastic teams, some 25 or 30 had two weeks of light training at Newcastle in July. For another two weeks in August, several of the quarterbacks and halfbacks were the guests of Emmons at Falmouth and played football daily. On September 17 the whole squad was asked...
About a dozen men came out for lacrosse yesterday afternoon. The playing was all done out of doors. At first the men practiced passing the ball from a distance; afterwards two scrub teams were formed, and some good practice was obtained in running with the ball and passing it. Although the players had been at work only a short time, and have, many of them, had no experience in the game, they are already beginning to show considerable skill in the use of the stick...
There was naturally a mighty cry of indignation after the game yesterday that when the public had been led to expect a chance would be given to make comparison of the relative strength of Harvard and Yale, Harvard should play practically a scrub team. We have endeavored to ascertain the position of the football managers in the matter, and believe the facts to be something like this: Manager Moore arranged the game with the understanding that Harvard would put her strongest eleven in the field and announcements were made accordingly. Late Wednesday night a meeting of the coaches was held...