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Although it is too early to prophecy in very certain terme, prospects for a good cross-country team appear fairly bright. Coach Shrubb has at his disposal quite a large amount of seasoned material and his chief task will be to develop runners capable of keeping pace with the stars of other colleges...
...There is no disguising the fact that the linemen are not up to the ordinary. Taft may develop into a fine tackle and the chances are that he will, but he probably will be developed rather late in the season...
...means as seasoned as the quartets of previous years. The kind of football Harvard will play today is therefore expected to be of the open type instead of the close, conservative game which proved so successful for the heavier players of last year. The aim will be to develop speed in the backfield of this year's team and ability in open field work...
...Freshman baseball team this year, captained by E. L. Casey '19, has not been up to the standard of former first-year nines, mainly because of a scarcity of as excellent material available for Coach Ball to develop this season. The principal weakness has been in the batting department, only the outfield trio being consistently good fielders and hitters. The 1919 team was shut out by the Yale freshmen, 4 to 0, at New Haven on May 30, and only three out of the other eight games on the schedule were won by Harvard, opponents having piled up 52 runs...
Whether or not the University will make a creditable showing in track next year depends entirely upon the interest of those men who are physically able and who, by a little sacrifice on their part, could easily develop into point-winners in the field events. There is no disgrace in being defeated when you have done your best-but the knowledge that had it not been for a few "slackers" the showing of the track team this season might have been much different, is a disgrace, and one that every member of the University should make an effort to wipe...