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...Brown, and Chadwick. But within a few weeks the team played wretchedly slow and listless football. The veterans were the poorest. At the same time came the accidents that always occur during the middle of the season. Butterworth, Beard, Adee, and several of the new candidates developed physical troubles, rather more being in the nature of sickness, than sprains or bruises. This state of affairs grew worse until at least half the old players were considered unfit to play in the big games. By the last of October, the Yale team was not in any better circumstances, in spite...
Seaver has just come down from the 'varsity rush lines. He is rather green, and is too easily caught off of his guard. He plays too high, and rarely breaks through...
Manning has no particular faults, yet he does not play well. He plays rather loosely and tackles weakly...
...these resemblances some of us may think the characters much the same, only different editions of the same girl. But they are poignantly different. Viola was a tender, delicate creature, almost sentimental. Rosalind also had some sentiment, but with it was combined so much humor that it was rather lost sight of. She laughed on every occasion, perhaps because she was conscious of being the cause of so much laughter in others. Beatrice had little sentiment; just enough for a great lady, of which she is Shakspere's best type. In this she differed from Viola and Rosalind...
Considering the cold weather and strong wind the team practice was rather encouraging...