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...forced back and in a scrimmage behind her goal Codman secured the ball and make a touchdown, from which Austin kicked a goal. In the second three quarters the play of both sides was much looser as the score will show. Wesleyan's halfbacks repeatedly saved her from worse defeat, for their kicking was almost perfect. Harvard kicked off and made Wesleyan touch back for safety forthwith. She retaliated immediately and driving. Harvard back she forced our men to make three safety touchdowns, gained entirely by the long kicks of the half-backs. In one of the subsequent downs...
...already begun work. Players of the game have appeared on the field trying for positions and already it seems that from this material several good men are to be chosen. But this is not enough. Weight and strength combined with skill in football as experience has shown will surely defeat a moderately skillful team unaided by these other qualifications. Therefore we hope the captain will call upon all men in the class, old players or not, who are likely to possess the requisite weight, strength and endurance to present themselves as candidates and learn the game. Freshman year, if ever...
Yale is cautioning her freshmen to guard as zealously against a tie in this fall's game as they would against defeat, so '87 must not only strive to equal the record of last year's team, but to surpass it. With the good material already so abundantly furnished there is no reason that they should not do this if they will settle down to the hard work which can reasonably be expected of them. Such a warning should be unnecessary to a majority of the candidates, for many of them have previously met college teams during their practice...
...representative teams will have at stake, and they ought thus to judge for themselves what the nature of the work demanded of them is to be. The whole college stands ready to aid them with its encouragement and support, for they must share with them the victory or defeat which is to come. May '87 see their responsibility in time, and by improving on the good work done by '86 last year mat they succeed in again bringing the class championship to Harvard...
Owing to the severe defeat administered to Wesleyan by Yale a short time ago, it was thought that the game would be too one sided to be interesting but Wesleyan proved themselves no mean opponents either in weight or skill...