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...Camp Devens-Camp Upton game in New York, H. W. Minot '17 contributed the winning score for the Massachusetts eleven on a 60-yard run for a touchdown. The Devens team, drilled by Coach Haughton, contained seven former University players in its lineup. In the backfield: W. F. Robinson '18, Minot and T. C. Thacher, Jr., '18 played a fast game, while in the line the University contributed two ends, a guard and centre, in C. A. Coolidge '17, W. Whiting '16, M. Weston '15 and M. Wiggin '18. C. Blagden '02 played for the Upton eleven...
Brown is slightly heavier than the Hanover team, especially in the backfield, where the latter team has an exceptionally light combination...
...Newport the names in the squad contain almost an All-American lineup. Black and Callahan of Yale, Paisley of Michigan, and the star Syracuse guard, Schlacter, are in the line. The work of the last-named player was the outstanding feature of the informal-Naval Reserve game. In the backfield, Gerrish from Dartmouth, Barrett, star punter and fast running Cornellian; Hite of Kentucky and Gardiner from the Middle West from an exceptional quartet...
...Navy Yard, however, has an equally notable list of players in its squad. C. A. Clark, Jr., '19, Algar and Adams of Tufts and Skilton of the B. A. A. are heavy and fast playing linemen. It is in the backfield that the Navy has its greatest strength. E. L. Casey '19, T. H. Enwright '18 and Cannell of Dartmouth, all star players on former University squads, are a trio of backs who have broken up the defence of every team which they have so far encountered. W. J. Murray '18 directs the play. L. H. Leary '05 has been...
...places them in the football Hall of Fame. With the possible exception of the Navy Yard team here in Boston, the Newport squad is the best in the country. With a line made up of men like Schlacter of Syracuse, and Callahan and Black of Yale, and with a backfield composed of Barrett, Gerrish, Hite and Gardiner, this naval Reserve team is as near being an All-America product as any aggregation the ever played together. When the Informals went to meet this Goliath among football teams, the University said a sad farewell and prepared to give them a wholesale...