Word: strong
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...practice. For the next ten days, he will spend considerable time in watching the Freshman backs and will aid in beginning the new offensive. "When the crudeness of the team's play wears off, and the men become familiar with their positions, the Freshman eleven will be a strong aggregation," was his comment after practice...
Both of the new opponents will have strong elevens. At Camp Devens more than 30,000 soldiers are divided into a large number of teams, all coached by former college players, which will play an elimination series for the championship of the division. The best of these players are to be selected as the first team of the cantonment, and it is this eleven which will play the Informals...
Captain W. S. Overton, who for a short time last summer acted as commandant of the R. O. T. C., was in Cambridge yesterday. He is now in charge of the Yale R. O. T. C. and has been a strong advo- cate of the continuance of athletics as a supplement to military training. Captain Dupont, one of the six original members of the French Military Mission, is working in conjunction with him in New Haven...
...many able-bodied men must serve their countries behind the line as are ever in the first line trenches. The necessity that the auxiliary services shall assist the actual fighters to the full extent of their ability demands that these services shall be conducted as efficiently as possible. Strong men are needed behind the battle-line in order that the efforts of those in the line shall be made effective...
With a team strengthened by the return of its captain, the informal University eleven today plays its first game in the Stadium at 3 o'clock against the strong and heavy Naval Reserve team from Bumpkin Island...