Word: strength
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual Fall Freshman Games will be held this afternoon on Holmes Field at 4 o'clock. There have been about fifty men in training throughout the month, and as these have been divided among the eight divisions with the idea of making them as nearly as possible of equal strength, the result is very much in doubt and will probably depend on second and third places...
...Freshman squad was given its regular practice in tackling and breaking through the line yesterday afternoon. The men are in good shape and get into their plays with a great amount of life and strength. The second squad is receiving careful coaching and is showing up very well. After the regular practice yesterday the second team lined up against the second '98 team and in a half of fifteen minutes the Freshmen managed to score six points to their opponents' nothing. Sanborn made the touchdown for the 1901 team and Flint kicked the goal...
...whole, the team should have a strong line, but until the interference is cleaner and more effective, it cannot do well on the offensive. As the eleven has played no regular game, it is impossible to gauge its strength as a team, but the men individually are up to the standard of class teams. The team has been coached G. S. Curtis '92, and J. L. Knox '98. The men now trying for the eleven are: Ends-Wood, Curtis, Rice, Flershem. Tackles-Seaver, Rice, Holmes, Jordan. Guards-Stone, Hennen, Thayer. Quarter-back-Vincent. Half-backs-Riggs, Emmons, Sanborn. Full-back...
Harvard was held for downs twice and West Point five times, yet the defensive strength of the two teams can hardly be judged from this fact, as the Harvard line, with the exception of the ends, was weak...
...FOOTBALL.- Be out at 2.30 in football clothes. Every one who has not taken the strength test must take it today...