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Coach Fisher and Coaches Parmenter and Sedgwick took charge of the men, and directed their work. The lineman reported to Sedgwick and the backfield candidates to Coach Fisher and Captain C. C. Buell '23, who assisted the coaches part of the time...
...same team will start for the Crimson tonight that has entered all the recent contests with Gordon and Captain McLeish at forward, Fitts at center, and Black and Rudofsky in the backfield. It is probable that many substitutions will be made, however, and most of the squad should get in during the course of the tussle...
...baskets from the floor and running up a total of eleven points out of fourteen free tries from the foul line. Excellent long shooting by Fowler and Smith, the Clark right forward and center, featured the offensive play of the Worcester team but, by the second half, the Crimson backfield solved their opponents' attack and held them to three baskets...
...Coach Fisher will have a larger squad of veterans to work with than he had this year, when there were only 20 men back from the previous year. Buell, W. P. Howe Jr. '24, and J. J. Lee '24 will all be available for quarterback next fall. The backfield men who are expecting to return are George Owen Jr. '23, P. F. Coburn '23, R. W. Fitts '23, Vinton Chapin '23, W. H. Churchill '23, E. L. Gehrke '24, Lewis Gordon '24, Percy Jenkins '24, and K. S. Pfaffman '24. For ends, Coach Fisher will have W. E. Crosby...
...North Carolina came to the Bowl and was overwhelmingly routed 34-0. Again the line held like a stone wall, allowing the Southerners not a single first down, but this time the Eli attack began to give promise of the power to come. Jordan and Captain Aldrich in the backfield, as usual did the ball carrying, keeping their footing in an uncanny manner on the slippery field. Time after time they ripped off long gains around end and through the line,--the Yale leader once getting loose for a 62-yard dash for a touchdown. For the first time...