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Foot Ball. Harvard vs. Trinity, Jarvis Field...
Three match games will be played by our eleven during this week. This afternoon they will play the Trinity eleven on Jarvis field, and on Thursday the University of Pennsylvania menThe University and second elevens practiced on Saturday for an hour and a half. The best features of the game was the kicking of three goals from the field by Kimball. Good passing by the forwards was noticeable and at times sharp, active work by Phillips...
...light. They were : Porter, full back ; Fargo and Holden, half backs ; Osgood, quarter back ; and Balch, Brancroft, Woodman, Churchill, Fuller, Purdon, Homans and Thomas, rushers. There was one extra man to make up for the supposed weakness. The ball was kept at the freshmen end of the field most of the time, and good rushes by the eleven and poor tackling by the Freshmen enabled the University team to score several touch-downs. However, the play of '88 was good at times, that of Osgood, Woodman and Holden being the best. The chief trouble with the Freshmen was their inability...
...fire the pistol as you give the word 'set,' but keep your men until they are all as steady as statues. Then let them go. Every starter in this country has a different way of sending off his men, consequently the athletes do not know what to expect." [Turf, Field, and Farm...
...once. There is certainly a very strong inducement for a player to get off-side and thereby secure the ball, and to do this is not so very difficult, as a referee is after all but mortal and can not have his eyes upon every man in the field. As long as this state of things continues we suppose there will be players who are mean enough to avail themselves of this opportunity. To be obliged to publicly warn a man for unfair play three times before by punishment can be inflicted seems absurd, but such was the case under...