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...opening practice of the Freshman football squad saw 138 candidates for the team on the Freshman field yesterday. Of this number 28 were ends, 25 guards, 19 quarterbacks, 15 tackles, 11 centers and 40 backfield men. This exceeds by 21 last year's record breaking squad of 117. Today and tomorrow should add considerably to this number as a great many more men will probably report at today's practice...
...promising with almost a dozen schoolboy stars expected in addition to the usual material from the smaller preparatory schools. Kilgore and Paulsen, tackles from the Hill School, are expected to shine as well as Zarakov, an Exeter halfback. Miller from Worcester Academy, is particularly promising, being an extremely fast backfield man weighing over 190 pounds. He placed in both of the dashes at the Harvard Interscholastic last spring. Bond, who enters from the University of Maine, should be among the leading center candidates, while Daley, captain at Andover last year, is certain to be a contender for a tackle berth...
Coach Fisher retained only 35 linesmen but kept 30 backfield candidates a larger number than have survived the initial cut in recent years. The additional men were kept due to the uncertainly as yet as to the probable personnel of the backfield, and the University coaches are taking no chance of passing up any good backfield material...
...brought back. J. L. Donovan, who played in the line on the 1924 Freshman team beside H. S. Grew Jr. and Captain R. S. Hubbard Jr., and who has been unable to go out since then put up a strong game at guard for team A. Team A's backfield was weak, but N. S. Howe, Captain of the 1926 team, was the most consistant ground-gainer...
...third spring football practice of the season yesterday, a new system of conditioning exercises was innovated by Coach Campbell. All the backfield candidates were made to run in a circle, jump every third step, roll on the ground, hop, first on one foot and then on the other, walk holding onto their ankles, turn forward and backward somersaults, and finally, run at a quick pace, bent double with arms folded...