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...Hotchkiss School at Lakeville, Conn., this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. The 1916 team has played two games so far this season, defeating Gordon, 16 to 0, and St. Mark's, 12 to 0. Hotchkiss was defeated last Saturday by the Trinity second, team, 7 to 6; the Hotchkiss backfield suffered a severe loss in this game when Pumpelly was badly injured and as a result has been forced to give up the game...
...last hard scrimmage for the University football squad in preparation for the Amherst game took place yesterday afternoon. The first part of the scrimmaging was between two teams of approximately equal calibre chosen by Coach Haughton. Wendell, Brickley and Logan made up the backfield on one team, while H. Hardwick, Bradlee, and Freedley played on the other. The latter team won on a beautiful drop-kick by Milholland, from the 30-yard line and a brilliant run of 30 yards by Bradlee for a touchdown. T. Frothingham kicked the goal...
Loftus at quarterback played the greater part of the game for Yale, and although not as clever nor as spectacular a runner as Cornell, showed much greater general ability in handling his team than anyone yet seen in the position this season. Flynn was again the mainstay of the backfield...
...afternoon to snappy signal practice. In spite of the fact that great attention has been paid to the development of the forward pass during the past week, the ends show no particular improvement in holding the ball. On the whole, however, the team shows a lot of snap, the backfield being especially fast. Last year the Freshmen defeated Groton...
Dartmouth scored first on a successful forward pass. The feature of the game was the work of D. Morey at right half, who made four touchdowns and several long end runs. Dartmouth's most noticeable defect was the tendency of the backfield to fumble near its own goal-line...