Word: teams
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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...
...Blagden '02, H. H. 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...
Freeland Huston Leslie, of Milton, four, prepared for College at Milton Academy, where he played on the school football team. He is 18 years old, weighs 174 pounds, and is 6 feet in height...
...baseball team gave proof yesterday of the quality which has been characteristic of it throughout the season--hard fighting. With the score 2 to 0 against them, and with one bad inning behind them, the men were never unsettled; they played hard and fast, and they played to win. Harvard's pitchers were the better and the Harvard team the steadier. In the words of one of the Yale players, "Harvard had the better team, but Yale had the luck to start with"; the element of luck which favored Yale at the outset was counterbalanced by Harvard's luck later...