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...catching and passing of most of the men are rather poor. The fielders do not cover well, nor do they drop well at goal. Many of the men are very slow about throwing the ball, and the attack men do not dodge sufficiently. Frequently in that part of the field a clever dodge is very effective. The men should learn to handle the ball with greater skill. If some of these points are remedied, we do not see why our very strong team should not reap fresh laurels next Saturday...
...said to be "very anxious that his college should have a good ball nine," while we learn from a recent issue of a Harvard paper that the captain of the foot-ball team of that ancient seat of learning "has laid aside everything in favor of work on the field this fall." [Buffalo Express...
...more than probable that a new baseball field and cinder-path will be laid on the "new made" lands in Boston next year. There is great need of a good track near Boston...
...ball, and after making a good run threw the first goal in fine form, at some 40 yards distance. Soon after play was resumed, a goal was claimed on Simson's throw. But was decided to be wide by Mr. Atkinson. Soon afterwards the ball was thrown down the field a distance apparently of 120 yards, by Reuter, and Woods made a goal by a clever swipe. Harvard played this game in the best style. The third goal was made by a good play by a Union home man, and shortly afterwards time was called on account of darkness...
...decent looking eleven to show their friends as the one representing Harvard, when they take them to see a game. Of course in the present unsettled condition of the eleven this is impossible and in the matches which are played now, we expect to see a team on the field, every man in which has on a different colored pair of stockings from his neighbor; but in the intercollegiate games there seems to be no reason why this should be so, and it always has been so, or at least very nearly so. Columbia and Princeton, certainly, if not Yale...