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Yesterday thirteen men reported for the Senior football team, seven for the Junior team, and three for the Sophomore team. This magnificent total of twenty-three is most encouraging for the class series. Two teams can be picked, and there will still be one substitute held in reserve...
...University baseball team won a thirteen inning game from Williams yesterday afternoon by the score of 2 to 1. Both sides scored in the second inning, but after that the score remained tied until the last of the thirteenth, when Hicks singled and Harvey brought him in with a hit over the centre-fielder's head. Hicks and Templeton were the opposing pitches throughout the game...
...extend our heartiest congratulations to the first Harvard baseball team that has defeated Princeton at Princeton in thirteen years. Against opponents that had the advantage of playing on their own grounds before enthusiastic partisans, the University nine scored a victory almost as decisive as the shutout at Cambridge. The fact that Princeton was able to score only one run in both games, as compared with Harvard's ten, is convincing evidence of the relative strength of the two teams...
...games in the schedules of the past fifteen years we find two distinct climaxes. The first was in 1893-94 in the case of football and baseball, the two major sports which have caused the trouble. The greatest number of games a University football team has ever played was thirteen in 1893 and in the spring of the following year the baseball schedule was the longest on record, containing thirty-three games. As these figures have gradually decreased the schedules of the minor sports have increased, until the climax was reached last year when there were thirteen games...
...three games is being prepared for the baseball team as opposed to twenty-seven last year, a reduction of fifteen per cent. The basketball schedule was cut in half by reducing the number from sixteen to eight, while the hockey team is scheduled for ten games as opposed to thirteen last year. The football schedule contained ten games last fall, the same as the previous year. The schedule for the coming fall has not been announced. Opinions differ widely on the number of games which can be safely sacrificed on this schedule, but some reduction can and should be made...