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...Massachusetts Agricultural College football team, which plays the University on October 21 held its first scrimmages yesterday when Coach Melican lined up teams "A" and "B" for a hard three-quarter-hour session. Team "A" with Captain Grayson at quarter and Weeks, Pond and Boles in the backfield, were able to put across two touchdowns over team "B." Day of Hatfield, who has played a star game at end for the past two years, has not yet arrived at Amherst, but is expected in a day or two. MacNaught, one of last year's subs, filled the centre position...
...backfield, Yale has some fine material, the star of the big group of candidates being Legore, Neville, Smith, Jacques, Potter, Bingham and Waite are all capable halfbacks, while the fullback king is Rex Hutchinson...
...University backfield is lighter, and by no means as seasoned as the quartets of previous years. The kind of football Harvard will play today is therefore expected to be of the open type instead of the close, conservative game which proved so successful for the heavier players of last year. The aim will be to develop speed in the backfield of this year's team and ability in open field work...
...Robinson '18, quarterback, who won his "H" last fall, has regained his standing at the college office, and will start the game tomorrow. This backfield combination of Robinson, Bond, Horween and Flower has been working together ever since the first signal practice was held soon after practice began this fall, and they should carry through the plays today without a hitch. Horween has also had much varsity experience, having played in the Princeton and Yale games last fall...
...University of Virginia eleven faces a difficult schedule of games, and she does not feel that she is overly equipped to make the best of it. There is but one backfield veteran available Captain Sparr, the fullback. Mayer Anderson and Rhodes, who made such an impression at New Haven and Cambridge, are not in college, and Tippett is not expected to return to the University. This leaves an array of substitute material, Pace, Churchman, Goodwin and Kinsolvin, to fill the missing places. In addition to backfield men who have been lost through one cause or another, stalwart forwards, such...