Word: five
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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Yesterday afternoon the Freshman squad numbering fifty-five men, was divided up into three regular teams. The greater part of the afternoon was spent in running the teams through signals and practicing formation plays. Of the mass plays the tandem formation seemed to be the best executed although the line lacked promptness in getting underway...
...short half between the first and the third elevens both teams showed creditable offensive work. In the first few minutes of play the third eleven by a series of line plunges brought the ball to the five yard line where it was lost on a fumble. Burgess of the first eleven during these plays showed up particularly well in his tackling. From the five yard line the first eleven, chiefly by the plays of Pruyn and Parker, scored a touchdown. The teams are at present lined up as follows...
...made a failure of an attempt to punt, and J. Lawrence kicked the ball over the line where Ristine fell on it for the first touchdown less than a minute after the game begun. J. Lawrence kicked the goal. After the next kick-off Harvard by Daly's forty-five yard run, Sawin's twenty-yard plunge through a hold made by J. Lawrence and several short plunges by Ellis and Sawin, took the ball once to the ten-yard and again to the two-yard line, but lost it both times on off-side play. Finally Morley made...
...ball on downs on the twelve-yard line. A ten-yard buck by Sawin and another short one by Ellis scored the touchdown. J. Lawrence kicked a difficult goal. Soon after the kick off Ellis made a well-placed punt from the middle of the field to Columbia's five-yard line. Columbia failed to gain twice and Harvard got the ball on the five yard line on Morley's poor punt. Sawin on the next play broke through right tackle again and scored the last touchdown. J. Lawrence kicked another goal from a difficult angle. From then until...
Just before the close of the fall baseball practice a series of games will be played between picked teams representing the two squads into which the candidates have been divided. Cups will be given to the members of the team winning three games out of five. The name of the donor of the cups is withheld...