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...fact that fundamentally the same play has been used successfully against Yale, Princeton, and Oregon, and that it still remains a mystery is proof of the incomplete understanding of the "Harvard system" by outsiders. According to Coach Fisher, numbering would aid experts in analyzing the plays, and would materially weaken, and possibly almost eliminate, the effectiveness of a system which has been built up here so successfully...
...results of the scrimmage were perfectly satisfactory to the coaches. Team "B" showed so much snap, and carried their plays through so perfectly that it is evident that if any of these men are put in the game Saturday, their substitution will not materially weaken the team. At any event, they will go into the contest with a thorough knowledge of the plays and a fighting spirit that will be as good as that of team...
...universities a certain proportion of the men become restive under the lecture system. This feeling is certain to grow and unless the colleges respond to it in some way their hold on the more intelligent men in America and on the intellectual life of the country is sure to weaken. Their already feeble resistance to technical education will become a rout. The trouble with the lecture system is that it keeps a chap at 21 or 22 working on his old prep school subjects of Literature, Mathematics, History and Natural Science in the prep school way. Daily assignments are designed...
Harrison pitched a steady game for the University until the first of the ninth when he began to weaken. After he had walked the first two men up Coach Slattery sent in Goode to fill the gap. Beside allowing only four hits and striking out seven men in the first eight sessions Harrison pulled his team out of two dangerous holes...
Winton, the rangy Princeton first baseman, will be out of the game today because of an attack of appendicitis. His loss will greatly weaken the Tigers, for he was not only the steadiest man in an infield that is subject to streaks of wildness, but he has also been very effective as fifth man on the batting order...