Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Only 132 out of a total of 513 Freshmen who were given physical examinations this fall were found to be users of tobacco in any form. The ages at which these smokers started using the noxious weed also revealed interesting data. One man puffed a cigarette for the first time when he was but nine, while at the other extreme one man attempted smoking at the age of twenty-five. However of the 105 who answered this query, 86 started the practice between the ages...
...careless play of the earlier games was almost completely corrected, but in the last half the Freshmen were unable to stop the long Exeter passes, a fault which was still prominent in the game with Princeton two weeks later. Churchill and Owen again did excellent work in the back-field, each of them making a touchdown in the first quarter...
...Andover game on November 1, the Freshmen again were forced to the limit to win a 14-9 victory. The yearlings made their winning touchdown in the last three minutes of play after a 30-yard pass from Owen to H. L. Hartley. By their consistent gaining ability, Churchill, Owen and Buell again came to the fore...
...lone defeat of the season was administered by the strong Princeton freshmen who won by a score of 13 to 0. The Crimson team was dazzled by the speed and cleverness of the Tigers but nevertheless put up a good defensive fight and in the last quarter twice threatened the Princeton goal. Twice also they held the Orange and Black for downs within their five-yard line. Churchill, Buell, Owen, and H. W. Clark, the Crimson centre, were the bulwark of a defense that kept down what might have been a larger score...
...fought through for a 10 to 7 victory. Owen, Churchill, and Buell were the individual stars of the game. The former gathered in a fumble in the last quarter for a 50-yard gain. In two more plunges he carried the ball across the line for the Freshmen's only touchdown...