Word: yesterday
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...real practice for the University football squad for this week ended yesterday afternoon with a thirty-minute scrimmage between the first and second teams. Tomorrow the practice will be secret, and it will continue from now on, unless otherwise announced. In the scrimmage the first team showed up considerably better than it has at any time during the week. Several of the regulars, Minot, P. D. Smith, and Corbett were in the line-up at the start but were replaced before long. In the line, Perkins started at centre, but when he was taken out P. Withington was shifted from...
...Freshman football team plays Groton tomorrow, and had a stiff try-out against the University team Wednesday, yesterday's practice was of a light order only. For the first 15 minutes the entire squad of 66 men was drilled in tackling the dummy. The line men were then given practice in starting, and the backs were coached in punting, dodging, and catching punts. The ends worked at breaking through interference. After a brisk signal practice, the first team went into the Locker Building without a scrimmage. Two teams made up of substitutes and second team men had a light scrimmage...
After attending the inaugural ceremonies by which Ernest Fox Nichols was officially installed as president of Dartmouth College, yesterday, President Lowell returned to Cambridge late last evening. Of the seventeen honorary degrees conferred, two came to the delegates from the University. Upon both President Lowell and President Emeritus Eliot was conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws...
...following crews rowed from the Newell boathouse yesterday...
...Princeton football team was barely able to win from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Princeton yesterday, the final score being 8 to 6. At the close of the first half both teams had scored a touchdown, but Princeton failed to kick the goal, thus leaving Virginia in the lead by one point. In the second half the winning score for Princeton was made by Cunningham, quarterback, on a goal from the field...