Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game today there is but little doubt that Coach Horween's team would be a favorite at good odds. But Devens is lost to the backfield and Talbot and Ogden to the line. Last night it was still undetermined whether or not Mays would be allowed to enter the tilt. With Devens and possibly Mays out of the backfield most of the punch is gone and the duty to carry on falls on the shoulders of Schereschewsky and Batchelder. The former has never started in a big game while the latter is still a mysterious quantity despite an encouraging showing...
...game today there is but little doubt that Coach Horween's team would be a favorite at good odds. But Devens is lost to the backfield and Talbot and Ogden to the line. Last night it was still undetermined whether or not Mays would be allowed to enter the tilt. With Devens and possibly Mays out of the backfield most of the punch is gone and the duty to carry on falls on the shoulders of Schereschewsky and Batchelder. The former has never started in a big game while the latter is still a mysterious quantity despite an encouraging showing...
...same sports writer gives present day followers an insight on the condition of the men. There were hardly ever any substitutions except under special circumstances. The day on which the '97 game was being played was a hot one and the heat and the dust combined to make the tilt almost unbearable. There was no relief until near the end when we read that "Doucette and Haughton were compelled through exhaustion to retire from the field." The Haughton of that game was the same one who was to make a name for himself and Harvard later on as coach...
...scrimmage with the Freshmen yesterday after having been back on the University roster for less than a week. He was hurt about ten days before last Saturday's games but managed to recover in time to play a few minutes in the closing period of the Coast Guard tilt. The injury suffered in yesterday's workout will force him to remain out of the Springfield game this coming week...
...played in the doubleheader will be ready for the tilt with the gymnasts with practically all of them expected back in harness for the workout this afternoon. White will be the only one out of Saturday's game, his injury still being serious enough to make the doctors reluctant about approving him for play...