Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...abundance of veteran material is a criterion, the football eleven for next year will begin with a very good outlook. Since the connection of some of this year's players with the University will probably be changed before next season, it is too early yet to make very definite predictions as to the eligible material for next year's team. Some facts, however, are self-evident...
...graduate from the College or the Scientific School, and will not play unless they return to the Law or Graduate Schools. They are Boal and his substitute, A. R. Sargent, Captain Burden, and Parker and Warren, substitute halfbacks. This means the loss of all the valuable guards of this season's team, and leaves none who have played in a steady or dependable manner this year. Hollingsworth, Barnard and Lee are all of about the same degree of mediocrity. Of the Freshman eleven, the only guard of promise is Graydon, who is a hard rusher and line-bucker...
...Freshman eleven, in its last game of the season, defeated the Yale freshmen, on Saturday, by a score of fifty-four to nothing. The Harvard team was superior to its opponents in every point of the game, and showed the effects of better coaching and training. After the first two touchdowns had been secured, the Yale defense broke down completely and the subsequent scoring was due as much to the wretched tackling of the Yale team, as to the fast running of the Harvard backs...
This year's Harvard team has been selected from a very large squad, and has not been handicapped by having any of its best players taken on the 'Varsity squad. Owing to the unusually long season, the development has necessarily been slow. Since the game, however, with the U. of P. freshmen Nov. 4, steady improvement has been shown, especially through the secret practice of this last week. A strong defense has been developed, and the offense, though ragged at times, has been made very effective. As a result, moreover, of the continued and persistent coaching of J. L. Knox...
Copan will be the objective point of the expedition, and Mr. Gordon's party will join him there later in the season. It is intended to excavate the larger temples, and to copy by means of impressions or moulds the inscriptions and sculptured decorations on the walls, tablets and altars, which will be brought to light. An experienced moulder will form one of the party in the field...