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...Wilder, the most experienced members of the team, play fast aggressive games and can be depended upon at critical moments. The other two forwards are effective in body-checking and team work, but Pell is inclined to be slow in following back after losing the puck. In the backfield the chief fault is insufficient body-checking. Manning is an experienced goal-keeper...
...Bloomer, Kinney, Neal, Owsley and Leavenworth, and Rockwell will be ineligible to play, because of the four-year rule. Out of the twelve other men on the regular squad only seven will return, so that it seems likely there will be a decided lack of substitute material. Although the backfield, as it played in the Harvard game, will be absolutely intact, the line will be greatly weakened by the loss of four men, three of whom have played on the team since the freshman year...
...backfield there is plenty of material. Besides the four men who played in the Harvard game, Veeder, Stevenson and Wernecken will be eligible for half-backs and Hutchinson for quarterback. Yale should not need to develop punters, as Veeder is the equal of Hoyt in this branch of the game and Wernecken is nearly as good. The lack of weight will be the principal fault with next year's backs, as not one of the seven weighs as much as 170 pounds, and in this way more than in any other, the loss of the ground-gaining ability of Hogan...
...will be lost by graduation and there does not appear to be any good substitute material which may be developed to fill their places. The most discouraging feature of this situation is that four of those six are line men and they will leave gaps hard to fill. The backfield will be practically intact...
...other backfield positions there is an abundance of good material. Captain Hurley, by his brilliant work in all departments of the game, is easily the most prominent. Besides him, there will be R. E. Sperry '06, J. D. Nichols '06, F. H. Nesmith '06, H. Foster '07, J. Reynolds, Jr., '07, and J. Wendell '08. Both Sperry and Nichols have played in Yale games, Wendell took part in the Pennsylvania game this year, and Foster and Nesmith have played in some of the minor games; Reynolds has been on the second team. At quarterback, D. P. Starr '08 has shown...