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There were many changes over yesterday's line-up, especially in the backfield. Pendleton and S. Baker were given complete rests. Andrews was tried out at left end in place of Streit; neither man's work, however, shows any improvement...
...rushed the ball down for two tallies. The University team then recovered and made repeated attempts to score, but was unsuccessful. The Springfield team excelled in team work but lacked the aggressiveness displayed by Harvard, especially by Needham in the forward line and Rushmore and Francke in the backfield. Although marred by a number of fouls, the game was on the whole a very good exhibition of soccer...
...Only once did Brown threaten the Harvard goal-line. After a series of line plunges and a successful forward pass, Brown had the ball on the Harvard 8-yard line where they were held for downs. The most striking feature of the game was the speed of the Brown backfield. For Harvard Atkinson, Parker and Spang played a good game, the latter making some long end runs. Casey starred for Brown, often smashing through the Harvard line for gains of 5 yards. Captain Webb of Brown pulled a tendon in the first quarter and had to be taken...
...Harvard line is as yet untried in a really hard contest; and has yet a reputation to make of strength. The men will be opposed to a line out-weighing them a few pounds to the man, and a backfield composed of the hardest kind of line plungers. It will probably fall to them almost entirely to stop the Brown offence, since they have shown little beside the straight ahead game so far this year...
...Harvard backfield, on the contrary, enter the game, according to previous showing far ahead of their opponents. Captain Wendell has recovered sufficiently from the injury to his head to play at fullback and with Brickley and Hardwick should prove well high impossible to stop, especially on plunges through the left side of the line where Brown has only inexperienced men. With Langdon and Ashbaugh at the ends, Felton and Coolidge will probably find their hands full, as Ashbaugh has always been strong in that position and Langdon played a remarkably hard and fast game against Pennsylvania...