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...Perfect weather with little wind on Saturday made conditions for running...
...what was probably the last hard work-out before the Princeton game, the University football team yesterday afternoon went through a 45-minute scrimmage in which the entire squad took part. The drill was markedly fierce and savage, attention, however, being paid rather to the perfect execution of plays than to scoring...
During the preliminary work, while the ends and linemen were being drilled by their respective coaches, Mahan tried out his kicking, and put up a notably consistent exhibition at long and high spirals and at perfect drop-kicks from widely varying points in the field. His drop-kicks all carried much reserve power and showed for the most part remarkably true aim. If Mahan keeps up his work in this department, Princeton may have just fears for the drop-kicking supremacy of Tibbott...
...each other in a light scrimmage. After a half-hour of this, the University lined up against the second team and went through 45 minutes of hard play which resulted in a 12 to 0 shut-out for the black eleven. Captain Mahan featured the scrimmage by lifting a perfect drop-kick from the 50-yard line, and on another occasion, when the seconds had lost the ball on the University's 8-yard line after a sensational march down the field, he put his team completely out of danger by booting a 60-yard punt. Robinson, who was given...
...Such writing lingers in the memory, though it be only the memory of a few. But for one American who has read Dana's 'Speeches in Stirring Times' there are thousands throughout the English-speaking world who have shared with the boyish Dana his pleasure in the 'perfect silence of the sea' and 'the early breaking of day on the wide ocean,' his awe at 'the cold and angry skies' and 'long heavy ugly seas' off the Cape, who have seen with him the 'malignant' brightness of the lightning in the tropical storm, the yellow California sunshine and the gray...