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Light work was the order for the University football team in yesterday's practice. The backfield men reported half an hour early for individual coaching, which was followed by departmental drill for the other members of the squad. After about 20 minutes of this work the University team was lined up against the substitutes for a scrimmage. The ball was placed in midfield and was shifted from one team to another as the coaches saw fit, thus giving all the men practice in both offensive and defensive play...
Campbell was back in the University line-up, and with Wendell and Huntington formed the regular backfield. It seems probable that this will be the combination for the Brown game tomorrow. Storer was back at work at centre and Gardner was in his place at quarterback on the substitutes for the first time in scrimmage since his injury in the Bates game. Felton and Potter tried out their punting ability to good advantage the former getting off some spirals that averaged 45 yards...
...played at left end, and will probably stay there throughout the season as his presence greatly strengthens the weaker side of the line. Lingard filled the right end position in the absence of Felton. The only other change in the line-up was the shifting of Huntington to the backfield. He was substituted for Blackall at fullback, but had little chance to show his ability in that position. Although his knee is still bothering him a little, T. Frothingham played halfback for the substitutes in signal drill...
...Williams game Harvard for the first time this season showed a backfield which seemed to be better balanced than either the Yale or Princeton combinations. Wendell who is a certainty at half-back is unequalled as a line plunger, and with him, as all around backs, may be found at the end of the season almost any two of five or six men. Potter, while not up to Howe of Yale, as a quarterback, is a dependable man. Smith at end is better than any one Yale or Princeton can show, and Felton or Howard will make a satisfactory runningmate...
Taken all in all, at its present stage of development the Princeton team is too one-sided to be good. There is no doubt that it has the speediest backfield combination in the East and a pair of first class ends; but it has absolutely no good line plunger, and with the line unable to protect their attack, the backfield cannot be effective...