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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...HAVEN, Feb. 28, 1908.--The University basketball team was again defeated by Yale tonight by the score of 16 to 12. The game was fast and clean throughout, few fouls being called on either side. The work of the University team was by far the best of the season and was a considerable improvement over its playing in the first Yale game. Van Vleck was easily the best player on the floor; he shot four baskets from the floor and threw three from fouls. Brooks and Browne were strong on the defense and currie's basket-shooting was accurate...
Review of Basketball Season...
...progress of the University team has been decidedly erratic. The season was begun with a victory, Technology being defeated in an extra-period game by the score of 22 to 20, but since then victories have been scarce. Captain Broun received an injury at the very be ginning of the season, which was so serious as to necessitate his resignation. The team has been further handicapped by another resignation. That of the Coach Burnham, who was forced to give up his duties owing to the development of unexpected complications in his business in the west. Since he gave...
...game tonight is the last really important game of the season, the only other games being with west Point and Wesleyan...
Allen has sufficiently recovered from his injury to play, but S. Broun will be out of the game for the rest of the season. Wyman will play centre, and G. Browne left guard. Van Vleck and Clifford, two of Yale's Strongest players, who were kept out of the former game on account of conditions in studies, have been restored to full standing, and their return to the game will greatly enhance Yale's chances. A hard-fought game is expected, with the chances slightly favoring Yale...