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Word comes from Brown, however, that the team will be even stronger than when it faced Yale as Spates and Shupert, two star backfield men who have been on the sick-list for two weeks, and Fox, who starred last year at quarterback against the University but who has just returned to the college, will be available to send against the University substitutes. In scrimmage last week Fox starred. Thursday in a practice game between teams "A" and "B." he made a wonderful exhibition of broken field running by taking the ball 90 yards for a touchdown. However, his lack...
...were in the game, the yearlings would be able to give their opponents a hard fight and probably to defeat them. However, they have been greatly weakened at the last minute by the loss of such stars as Gehrke and Jenkins in the backfield, and C. Hubbard and Donovan in the line...
...dummy scrimmage against A after the usual routine workout. A snappy signal drill followed, with emphasis laid on charging as well as new plays. Though several of the regular linesmen went through the preliminary workout, it was observed that a substitute line entered the mix-up and that the backfield was second string material. It is obvious that Coach Ryan hopes to be able to enter a team with somewhat of its full strength in Saturday's struggle, and that he is carefully nursing his injured men for that purpose...
...team "B" line-up, which is probably the same that Coach Fisher will send against Brown, was as follows: Crocker and Finley, ends; Sedgwick and Lockwood, tackles; Holmes and Brown, guards; Tierney, center; and Johnson, alternating with Buell, Gratwick, Humphrey, and Hamilton, alternating with Rouillard, in the backfield...
...minutes, though, the Yearlings mixed it up with the recent vanquishers of Erasmus Hall, a New York aggregation, scoring rapidly from the start at midfield. These results were encouraging in that several of the most valuable backs and linesmen were out of the play. In fact, the backfield was almost entirely substitutes, E. S. Gehrke, P. Jenkins and L. Lockwood watching from the side lines. Not one of these men is seriously hurt, though Lockwood's leg is in rather troublesome shape. Gehrke and Jenkins, who have been the mainstay of 1924's attack, have sustained minor injuries which...