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...last of the scheduled games, that with Wesleyan, resulted in an easy victory for the 'Varsity. Thirty-four points were scored in practically one half, and there was such little opposition to all of the plays that the game resolved itself into a contest of little value in determining the weak points of the team...
Today's game between Harvard and Yale, the first since the fall of '94, has been a contest which meant far more to each side than the ordinary contests on the gridiron. Yale has been laboring with her proverbial grit against heavy disadvantages. The sympathies of all sportsmen have been with her in her efforts to maintain the magnificent record she has made in the past, by the exercise of those qualities which even her hereditary opponents cannot but admire and honor. Harvard, on the other hand, has strained every nerve to burst the chain of defeats which have been...
...week following the game with Brown the work was confined to strengthening the line and the whole defensive play. The result of this was encouragingly apparent in the Carlisle Indian game. Yale's defense was much stronger but still far from perfect. The week before the West Point contest was used in practicing a method for breaking up mass plays, but the work went for nothing when the team lined up against the Cadets. Saturday's game with the Chicago Athletic Association on the other hand demonstrated that the university eleven can play hard, fast football both offensive and defensive...
Yale will have an inter-class football contest for the first time this fall...
This afternoon the final game of the class series will be played between the Juniors and the Freshmen. The contest should prove a close one. The Freshman team is probably the stronger of the two, but it must contend against the inherent prestige of the upper class, and the greater experience of the Junior players. The 1901 eleven will therefore hardly do itself justice without the moral support of a friendly crowd back of it. The Freshman class will do well to bear in mind then that the place for them this afternoon is Soldiers Field. They are represented...