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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aboard the Harvard Special, Albany, N. Y., Nov. 7--Hauled over the Berkshires by two puffing locomotives, fore and aft, Harvard's varsity football squad, with its full complement of variegated retainers and a score of Boston newspapermen, paused for ten minutes here late this evening, bound for Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the Crimson's first quest for a big ten scalp on the latter's own battleground...
With but one more day of preparation before Harvard's first invasion of a Middle-Western gridiron, the University football squad went through a light but brisk workout yesterday afternoon. There was no contact work whatsoever, as the Crimson coaching staff was taking no chances of running afoul of the injury jinx...
Prior to the regular session, William Murray, who was captain and quarter back of the 1919 Harvard eleven and who has been scouting Michigan this fall, gave the squad a talk on the various Wolverine formations. There was no demonstration of these plays, but this afternoon will undoubtedly find the Crimson eleven's in a brief skeleton drill against the Ann Arbor team's attack...
...entire squad, with the exception of Hugely, reported in sound physical condition. O'Connell was back at his right end post, and it seems quite definite that he and Douglas will start Saturday at the wings. There were no other lineup changes; the backfield combination of Wood, Putnam, Devens and Harper, which made its debut against Florida, was working together again. A short but snappy signal drill concluded the afternoon's practice...
Huguley will be the only member of the squad to miss this Saturday's inter-sectional tilt. O'Connell and Gildea, the two who had to watch the Alligator tilt from the stands, were back in togs yesterday, jogging around the field. Wood, Devens, W. Ticknor and Douglas were all excused from the workout but will be back today...