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After a lapse of three years the University Association football team will begin the season when it meets the Andover team on Soldiers Field at 2.30 this afternoon. During the week the team has been put through stiff practice under the direction of Coach Burgess. Yesterday, however, except for a series of races, the practice was light. Particular attention was paid to passing and dribbling...
During the week the 1923 team has had hard workouts in preparation for today's game. On Wednesday afternoon they were given a stiff practice scrimmage against the University team. Blackboard talks by Coach Withington have been frequent. Chapin will not be able to play today because of an injury to his arm, and his place will be taken by L. P. Brown. The Freshman line-up follows: De Jonge, r.e.; Kunhardt, r.t.; Reynolds, r.g.; Clark, c.; Wood, l.g.; Ladd, l.t.; Hartley, l.e.; Buell, q.b.; Churchill, r.h.b.; Brown, l.h.b.; Owen...
Coach Charlie Burgess put his soccer squad through a stiff two hours of practice yesterday afternoon in preparation for their opening game with Andover on Saturday. The team, under Captain Gardner Tilton '20, has been working hard this week in practice games with scrub teams composed of former players from the Graduate Schools, and Coach Burgess seems well pleased with the results. "This is the best practice we have had this year," he remarked yesterday. "The material is surely there, and it is developing rapidly. The whole team is getting more confidence in their own offensive ability, and the defense...
...services of her captain, we will be brought back to earth with a thud. Our team is a fighting aggregation, well grounded in the fundamentals. With the support of a loyal, but not overconfident student body, they will offer Yale and Princeton a sturdy battle. We face a stiff assignment; a double victory is not a sinecure...
With one victory to its credit the 1923 team faces its first real test when it meets Groton today on the Groton field. The team has had a stiff week of practice, remedying the faults revealed in the game with Worcester. The Groton team, since its defeat at the hands of Milton last Saturday, has developed considerably but it is doubtful whether the light and inexperienced eleven will be able to withstand the Freshman attack...