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Though the two teams at no time in the game appeared so unevenly matched as these figures would indicate, and though the contest was a severe one from beginning to end, yet the strength of the Quakers became evident before the game was far advanced. Harvard was severely handicapped by the injury of five of her players, including the captain, two backs and the centre rush, and that the team played the game they did under such disheartening circumstances does them the highest credit. The grim determination with which they kept up a plucky uphill fight when all hope...
...Yale consolidated football eleven, including in its ranks nearly all the leading players of the Yale second eleven, has arranged for a grand Thanksgiving Day game in Syracuse, N. Y., with the athletic club team of that place. The consolidated team will leave here tomorrow for the contest. About fifteen players will be taken, including Sturgis, Whitcomb, Pond, Gillette, Judd, Dater, Squires, Pullman, Mandell, Hubbard, Inman and Patterson...
Upon being questioned last night as to the condition of the members of the eleven, Dr. Conant said that the current reports of the injuries of the men were greatly exaggerated. While on account of the severity of the contest there was an unfortunate number of injuries, yet none of these injuries were more serious than those that happen occasionally in practice and are thought little of. Wrightington is the only man who will be disabled for any length of time and his injury is not so serious as was reported. His collar bone was not broken, but the internal...
HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 23. - The triangular gun club contest between Yale, Harvard and Princeton, was shot this afternoon in a disagreeable, misty rain. Firing began about 2.15 p. m. and ceased at 4 o'clock. The match was won by the Yale team, which scored 101. Harvard 92 and Princeton 87. Each team was composed of five men, each of whom shot six strings of five birds, making a total of 150 pigeons by each club...
...3EVERY Harvard man should read the account of the Harvard-Yale game in the Boston Sunday Journal of November 25. Everett J. Lake, Harvard's famous halfback, and James C. Greenway, Yale's noted end, have been exclusively engaged by the Journal to report the contest. Walter S. Barnes, Harvard '84, and F. Roy Martin, Harvard '93, with competent assistants and the best artists, will combine to make this football number a notable...