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The football outlook at Yale seems more dubious than ever after the exhibition given by the eleven at West Point on Saturday. The slump in the team work is due, more than to anything else, to the inexperience and consequent lack of confidence of the individual players. In the game...
The game showed that Yale is not so weak, as that West Point is remarkably strong. The showing made by the cadets in the Harvard game two weeks ago was an indication of their strength. It was expected that the score would be close, but a tie was not hoped...
In the second half the playing was loose and ragged and only interesting from the point of view of the excellent game put up by the Freshmen. Their line, though weak on the defensive, was aggressive enough when rushing was resorted to, to erable their backs to make fair gains...
Nevertheless Harvard's game was very encouraging, as it brought out the best football that has been seen on Soldiers Field this year. The defensive work of the team was unusually effective, as with the exception of a few end runs by Gammons, the line was found to be practically...
Garrison ran the team with excellent judgement and backed up the line strongly on defensive play. He seems to be a shade better than Cochrane as he is quicker with the signals and gets into the interference better.