Word: squads
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...candidates for the University football team reported to Head-Coach Haughton at Soldiers Field on Monday, September 13. Individual calls had been sent out during the summer, with a result that a squad of 46 men was on hand, the largest number which has ever reported on the first day. The squad has steadily increased and now numbers, 80. The work for the first week was light, though the whole squad was daily given two sessions of practice. Great stress has been laid on those exercises which demand shiftiness and agility, such as dodging and crawling. The first scrimmage...
...Green '00. H. E. Kersberg '07, and R. Derby '05 have been drilling the line men; L. H. Leary '06 has had charge of the ends. V. P. Fennard '09, F. Gutting '09, and H. Foster '07 were put in charge of the second team when the squad was divided last week...
...present it is impossible to tell how the University team will be made up, but a slight outline of the leading candidates may be given. There are thirty-one players on the first squad, nine of whom have won their "H." G. G. Browne '10 will undoubtedly hold his position at left end, while F. de H. Houston '10, R. C. Brown '10, F. S. Blanchard '10, and H. A. Rogers '11, seem to be the most likely candidates for the other end. Captain Fish '10 and R. G. McKay '11, who is eligible, will make an extremely formidable pair...
...present the squad is divided into two parts, A and B. R. M. Page '10 has been appointed captain of the second team for his second year. Squad A is made up as follows: ends--F. S. Blanchard '10, R. C. Brown '10, G. G. Browne '10, F. de H. Houston '10, F. D. Huntington '12, H. A. Rogers '11, L. D. Smith '12; tackles--H. K. Bush '11, H. Fish, Jr., '10, F. A. Foster '10, H. Hooper '10, J. H. Knapp '12, R. G. McKay '11; guards--F. T. Blake '12, C. E. Dunlap '11, R. T. Fisher...
...Glenny, Jr., '09, two, of Buffalo, N. Y., prepared at Hackley. He was on last year's university squad. He is 22 years old, 6 feet tall, and weighs 165 pounds...