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...their position, and not in the present management of the association; for I know by experience in other places that the latter is capable of giving every satisfaction. But how can the game receive the attention it deserves while the only place in which to play it is Jarvis Field The courts there are without exception the poorest I ever saw and have the added disadvantage of being so near the foot ball grounds as to be continually surrounded by confusion. There is nothing to prevent the balls from escaping into the road at either side, and the muckers...
Freshman Athletic Meeting. -Homes Field...
...assembled on Jarvis Field yesterday afternoon expected anything but victory for our eleven after the satisfactory result of the game against the Technology on the 11th. The despondency which came over the audience when they realized that defeat stared us in the face can, therefore, be readily imagined. The game was called at 3.25 with Harvard at the West End of the field, a strong wind in their favor. The Pennsylvania quarter-back at the kick off made a bad pass and our rushers got down quickly and Gilman securing the ball rushed it close down to Pennsylvania's goal...
...with confidence, placing most of the men on the rush line when Harvard had a down. their men broke through quickly and often disconcerted our halfbacks when trying to catch or kick the ball, In the second half the ball was gradually worked to the Harvard end of the field. Peabody tried to make a fair catch close to the goal post, but a Penn, man got the ball, touched behind the line and was granted a touch-down, the only score made during the game. The ball was not kicked between the posts and after it was brought...
...chief function of this second, or supplementary eleven, is of course to give practice to the 'Varsity by playing against it daily. But the usefulness by no means ceases here, it is the school in which many of the men who are to bear our colors on the field next fall receive their training. Many a man, too, who fails to reach the standard of play necessary to secure a place on the University team is induced to keep in training in the hope of being chosen for the second team, with the prospect of ultimately working his way into...