Word: squad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the entire squad coming through Saturday's encounter against Springfield unscatched, Coach Horween yesterday began his drive to repulse the invasion of the Southerners in the form of the North Carolina team which will visit the Stadium next Saturday...
...heart for every play in the Stadium. One is more ready to believe, however, that this wistfulness is tempered with a homely and personal desire to whip the Yale Second Team. But whatever, the part of individual ambition in the struggle for positions on the University's two upper squads, there is yet one more squad. Low enough so that the melodies of the columnists pass unheard over its head, for even Grantland Rice never sang the sub-scrub, the class football squad at Harvard has entered into its Year IV with little flourish, and yet with a kind...
...fall of 1925 were handicapped in practising and playing by an informality that was terrific to opponents, but of doubtful benefit to the men themselves. In 1926 Director of Athletics Bingham gave the opening chord of the athletics-for-all motif with the establishment of a class football squad, coached by former University players, thoroughly outfitted, and playing on fields of its own. Football can now be taken up at almost any time during the fall; an intensive grass drill as preliminary to each practice insures the newcomer against strain and the injuries of ill condition...
...strongest departments of the 1928 football squad is that of tackle. Fortified with two veterans of last year's team and several other men whose record or promise so far have made them strong contenders for first team honors. Coach Horween and his line coach, R. J. Dunne, should not find undue worry in the tackle situation...
Pressing close on the heels of these two are the remaining members of the tackle squad, F. S. Davis '30, H. L. Morris Jr. '30, T. H. Alcock '29, K. D. Robinson '29, and W. T. Storey '30. They have all had some experience either in University or in Freshman competition, but their true worth under high pressure is an unknown quality and the team may suffer materially if either Clark or Rarrett should fall victim to the injury jink which has been an constantly dogging the trial of the Crimson...