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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Saturday, December 20, the Harvard Gun Club will go to Braintree to shoot in a match with the New England Kennel Club. This will be the first regular shoot of the year, on account of the failure to complete arrangements for the match with Yale. The plans made to hold that meet telegraphically had to be given up, due to unexpected difficulties. The management hopes, however, that a match may be effected later in the winter...
Most of the members of the Kennel Club team, of which Edward Wigglesworth '08 is manager, are graduates of the University, and several of them have shot on past Harvard teams. The men of the Gun Club will be the guests of the Kennel Club for lunch, as the match will be held in the early afternoon. At the present time the team of five men has not been selected, but it will, in all probability, be chosen from the following men: B. M. Baruch '23, R. Fiske '20, R. D. Hale '23, F. L. Hoopes...
...games in succession and travel two nights, but in spite of this they tied Cornell and played a splendid game against Princeton, so that it was with difficulty that the latter won 3-0. Pennsylvania won the sixth game, but in the Yale game last week a gruelling match ended with a scoreless tie, P. K. Fisher '20 carried the ball repeatedly up to his opponents' goal, only to have it kicked back out of danger...
...Football will be a popular game here in the future. The Rugby game is in much better favor than the somewhat sloppy game now played by our men." In this match the Harvard men experienced considerable difficulty with the spherical-shaped ball to which they were unaccustomed, but in spite of this embarrassment, combined with McGill's broader experience, Harvard managed to hold the Canadians gainless by superior tackling and general defensive work...
...fight, but that was all. It had nothing but the battering ram style of play of the early nineties, which is helpless against the defense--of a modern team. Kempton, who had hitherto been regarded as Yale's best bet, showed little and neither Lay not Neville was a match for Garrity or Strubing...