Word: point
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Aside from the valuable experience which the players and coaches of the Harvard team may have received from the West Point game, the football management must have been impressed by the admirable thoroughness with which every possible provision was made for the comfort of the crowd. There were not more than ten thousand spectators present, but the attendants could have handled many times that number had there been seats enough, so perfect was the organization of affairs. Information officers were stationed at several places about the grounds, and even at the train and boat platforms. Two cadets were detailed...
...those who live in this community information bureaus, ticket offices, and ushers in greater number than we are accustomed to would offer no additional pleasure in the games, but to the many who come as comparative strangers to Cambridge such minor details would bring much additional enjoyment. West Point has a large squad of enlisted men available for this sort of service; but the Harvard management would have no difficulty in securing a corps of qualified employees who would perform at Harvard games the duties that the regulars accomplish so efficiently at West Point...
...funeral of Cadet Byrne at West Point yesterday noon was attended by about thirty-five graduates of the University, including J. J. Higginson '57, president of the Harvard Club of New York, and Coaches Blagden, Daly and Kernan of the football team. The undergraduates were represented by G. P. Gardner, Jr., '10, and the football team by H. Fish...
...McKay were not on the field, but they are not to be out of the game for long. O'Flaherty will be back again tomorrow. The line-up was shifted in a slightly different manner from that of the day before. Captain Fish had not returned from West Point and P. Withington was given only light work, so Perkins played centre, W. K. Blodgett right guard, and Fisher continued to play right tackle in Fish's place...
...remaining four games of the West Point schedule have been cancelled by Colonel Scott...