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...question of the length of schedules has been the cause of a large part of the athletic controversy in the past few years it is of interest to see how the schedules of today compare in the number of games played with last year and five or ten years ago. We are supposed to be proceeding at present on a platform of reduction. The Faculty has expressed its opinion that a considerable curtailment would be wise and there have been varying estimates as to what the limits of the reduction should be. It seems only practical from the athletic standpoint...
Charles Lowell '54, of whom Major Higginson spoke at greatest length, was full of mischief and fun, always ready for anything, but a brilliant scholar, graduating at the head of the class of 1854, at the age of 19. After leaving the University, he was employed in a counting-room, and later worked as a mill hand, in order to study, the men of the working classes. Through obstinate disregard of his health he contracted tuberculosis, making it necessary for him to travel. He tried Spain, Italy and Aigiers in turn, but finally returned to America and went to take...
...ball to the 25-yard line, where they kicked to the Seniors. The latter were held for downs, and on the next play Case advanced the ball to the 20-yard line by a long end run. On the following play Sheip intercepted a forward pass and ran the length of the field for a touchdown. Jones missed the goal. The Sophomores received the kick-off and advanced the ball to the 30-yard line, from which point Case scored just before the whistle blew. Voshell kicked the goal...
...second team will have a short schedule of six games, not yet arranged, and the Freshmen one of the same length, including a game with Yale...
...beginning of the second half the Seniors advanced from their own 15-yard line almost the whole length of the field, losing the ball on an unsuccessful forward pass on the Sophomores' 15-yard line. From this point 1911 worked the ball back to their opponents' 35-yard line, where the ball changed hands on downs. The Seniors later recovered a fumble on the Sophomores' 30-yard line and advanced the ball to the 10-yard line, where the Sophomores got possession of it as the half ended...