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...with their feet, English fashion, while pushing their way ahead through the opponents, but one and all, at the word, started forward violently kicking everything in the way. Upon the practice fields, which is in reality where the rules receive their best test, the 'varsity players were stronger and heavier than the 'scrub' teams which played against them. It thus happened that, with the force of their pushing and the violence of their kicking, they made it unpleasant for the scrubs to stop the onslaught in a scrimmage. It became necessary therefore for these lighter men to discover some...
...vacation over, we settle down once more to work with our college responsibilities pressing us heavier than ever. In the field of athletics alone, to pass by others, we have a deal to accomplish, and with this in view we must resolutely set ourselves to work. Aside from the increased sickness which is now prevailing everywhere, the present season is a rare one for our athletic interests. The crew, particularly, will profit by the open winter. We urge them to make the best of their opportunities so long as the river remains free from ice and the weather mild...
...Boston Athletic association eleven defeated Technology on Saturday by a score of 22 to 0. The Technology team was crippled by the loss of three good men, while the Athletic team averaged ten pounds heavier. The Athletics had the kick off and gained twenty yards. Within six minutes they had pushed the ball over the line for the first touchdown. In the first half they scored another touchdown and goal, and were only prevented from making more points by Technology's desperate work. In the second half the Athletics soon secured the ball and after a good run by Morrison...
...second half, the sky clouds and lowers, the sun disappears the cannon ceases to boom, and the complaints of slugging, unfair play, and Ames resound and increase with Princeton's score, till at the close Princeton is pronounced a brute, a knave, a liar. The Princeton players were, heavier men and older men than Harvard and could stand a rough game of give-and-take longer. Was this Princeton's fault? Then, too, there is no dispute that they played a better game. But the cry of brutes-based on Donnelly's and general rough play; knave-based...
Yale's rush-line averaged two pounds heavier than Harvard's. Yale's four backs averaged six pounds lighter than Harvard...