Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hitchcock '18 of the 1918 Freshman team will be available. This quartet will make a combination rarely found on a college nine. R. Harte '17 will again do the bulk of the receiving. Harte is a good hitter, has a strong whip, and is heavy enough to stand the strain of constant work. T. H. Safford '16 will be on hand to relieve him occasionally...
...which the University presents this fall is an untried one. Only four of the men who start tomorrow were in the Intercollegiates at New Ha- ven last fall. Only one runner is available from last year's Freshman team. But the team is in good condition and able to stand a hard race...
...hotly contested throughout but the finish was not so spectacular as that of the University boats. By coming in so close to the winner the Thayer crew gets one-half a point which is subtracted from the Eliot boat's three points, making the score in the series now stand, Eliot two and one-half points; Thayer one-half point. The fourth club crews race this afternoon at 3.50 o'clock, but the second club crews will not row until tomorrow...
Saturday's defeat has accomplished one thing which years of victory could scarcely attain. There is an instinct for men to stand together in adversity which is lacking in success, and every Harvard man who has previously felt only a complacent interest in the team is now backing it heart and soul. It is defeat which shows the true calibre of men, and the grit and fighting qualities showed by Captain Mahan and his team in Saturday's game have brought them out of the contest more respected, if such a thing is possible, than they were before the game...
...well the two teams have been coached. Captain Barrett and Shelton, last year considered by Walter Camp as All-American possibilities, are the greatest stars of the Cornell eleven, while Gillies and Cool have the reputations of linemen of much more than average ability. From Harvard's stand-point, Coach Haughton is sending in the best eleven he has. Enwright is the only man rated as a regular who will be unavailable for play, and the game should prove a good test of what the University team can do with practically the entire list of regulars able to get into...