Word: yesterday
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting of the nominating committee of the Sophomore class, which was to have been held yesterday at 5 o'clock has been postponed until 5.45 o'clock this afternoon. At this meeting the committee of ten will nominate at least two candidates for each class office...
...judge by the size of the Freshman parade to Soldiers Field yesterday, football enthusiasm and class loyalty are still dormant in the members of 1913. The class will never have a better test of its mettle than this afternoon, for it will mean a sacrifice of self-interest to stand on the side-lines of the Freshman field while the University game is being played. But the first duty of Freshmen is to their class team, and enthusiastic support this afternoon will double the chances of victory...
...University second football team easily defeated Fort McKinley, of Portland, Maine, on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon by a score of 27 to 0. The second scored two touchdowns in the first half and made three more in the second. The Maine team was only dangerous at the beginning of the game, when the kick-off was recovered and the ball was carried to the second's 15-yard line in two plays, where it was lost on a fumble. Before the second made the first score, it was held on the 7-yard line for downs. After that the opponents...
...greater part of the Freshman football practice yesterday afternoon consisted in punting to the backfield, blocking by the ends and in forming interference against the substitutes. The practice began with a short session of tackling the dummy. This was followed by the backs catching punts under the direction of Coach Waterbury and the ends practicing blocking under Coach Moore...
...secret practice which the football team held yesterday afternoon in the Stadium was one of the fastest and most encouraging of the entire season. The whole team played with more spirit, showed more life and dash than it has shown in any signal practice this year. There was no scrimmage, but both the first team and substitutes were given a long "dummy" scrimmage against the second team. Much attention was devoted to the handling of punts, to O'Flaherty's drop-kicking, and to the individual faults of each...