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...First Corps of Cadets on Technology Field, Cambridge. At left half-back on the Battery A eleven was Madison Sayles '27, consistent ground-gainer and defensive back on the University team this fall. At left tackle was Brainard Taylor '26, another graduate of the Soldiers Field gridiron, who was on the University squad for two years...
...game. Many of the ablest and most discriminating advocates of football as a college sport argue that the gridiron game stands emphatically not for the prowess of the individual, but for the ability of the team, that the game is founded on the perfect functioning of a machine in which the individual player is submerged, that the success of a team depends on the ability of eleven men to fuse themselves, mind and muscle, into a unit for a struggle with another group of eleven men who also strive not for personal glory, but for co-operative success. This dinner...
...number of years ago the deciding features of the Eastern football scramble was the annual gridiron clash between Harvard and Yale Crimson and Blue marched triumphant over their early season opponents and came to Stadium or Bowl to battle out the question of the Eastern championship. But in late years with the rise on every side of powerful teams all this has been changed and the Harvard Yale tilt has become less and less of a titular affair...
Crimson will meet Blue on two soccer fields this morning as preliminaries to the annual gridiron classic in the Bowl Defeated by Princeton for the Big Three title the Yale and Harvard booters will fight out their private quarrel at 11 o'clock at New Haven...
...Harvard-Pennsylvania football series was among the earliest established rivalries on the gridiron. From 1881 until relations were broken off in 1905, 19 games had been played, of which 12 had been won by Harvard. In the early years of the series, strong teams from the University annually annihilated the Pennsylvania eleven, as is shown by the scores of 1887, 1888, and 1889, when the Philadelphia's fell by 42 to 0, 35 to 0, and 50 to 0. After Harvard had enjoyed a long winning streak, the series closed in 1905, the last two games being Pennsylvania victories...