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...present indications Yale's 1916 football team promises to be the heaviest in several seasons. No team since the giant combination captained by Gordon Brown in 1900 has tipped the scales for more pounds. Three of the rush line weigh more than 200 pounds each, and one of the backfield is close to that weight. Zenner, from the freshman team last year is the champion heavy-weight of the combination, weighing 225 pounds. Zenner is rated as companion guard to Captain Black, another of the 200 pounders. The rush line alone averages 194 pounds...
...average weight of the Yale rush line is 194 pounds, backfield 173 pounds, and the average weight of the entire team is 186 pounds. Nothing is, of course, settled of the makeup of either combination, but, since the signal rehearsals started last week, there have been only two changes, and Yale will begin the playing season with a makeup in which most of the present players will probably figure. The approximate weights are as follows: Gates, left end, 175 pounds; Taft, left tackle, 180 pounds; Captain Black, left guard, 220; Callahan, centre, 185; Zenner, right guard, 225; Baldridge, right tackle...
...Princeton football candidates have been practising at Lake Winnewaska, New York, for the last two weeks. Coach Rush has been playing particular attention to drop and place kickers of ability, and recent cold weather has given the coaches an opportunity to hold scrimmages. In the backfield of the first eleven were Haas, Moore, Driggs and Mathiasen, and these men showed up strongly on both the offensive and defensive...
...showed late last season that he knows how to turn the ends. In Tibbott he has a dangerous open field-runner and an expert drop-kicker. In Moore he has a fast, elusive back. We shall see Princeton this year making a lot of use of her backfield in the way of returning kick-offs. The Tigers last season showed a very interesting protective system for a man coming back with a placement kick or punt, and no doubt it will be built upon this year. Last season the short, sharp forward pass came into view in the latter games...
...academy August 15 and spend a portion of his time getting the plebes into shape before the regular academy teams report for work. He will coach under the direction of Lieutenant Jonas Ingram, Annapolis' head coach, who was also instrumental in getting H. R. Hardwick '15 to coach the backfield last summer...