Word: scrubs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...clock this afternoon. After only two weeks practice with such a large squad, it is very difficult and hardly desirable to put the strongest combination of men in the field. The team has, however, learned the elementary points of the game, and in the last few days of scrub practice, has formed fast and close interference. Practically the same men have played on the first eleven since Wednesday and should therefore have developed some team play. Wesleyan, on the other hand, has not had the difficulty of forming an eleven from new material, as eight men of last year...
...Sept. 17, the same date on which the Harvard team began work. Although Captain Brown began the season with only 24 men, this number has steadily increased, until now the squad numbers over 60. At first the usual Yale policy was followed by chosing a first eleven and a scrub team as soon as possible, and then of changing to the first eleven, on trial, any man of the second who appears to have any ability. Lately, however, as the squad has increased in size, this scheme has left a number of men out of the game, without giving them...
...This organization will be known as the "Harvard University Scrub Football Series...
...scrub team schedule shall be finished before November 1st, and class teams, except the Freshmen, shall not organize before that date...
...rowed in heats, the juniors beating the seniors by half a length, and the sophomores beating the second and the first two freshman crews by a length and a little over a length respectively. The sophomores won the final race with the juniors by a length. The series of scrub races between the Pirates, the Harlequins and the Coystrels was won by the Harlequin crew. The last race of the day was an exhibition race between the university eight and the university four. The latter was given several lengths handicap and won by a few feet...