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...Speer, '89, Church, '88. Cowan, '88, George, '89, Janeway, '90, Irvine, '88, and Bickham, '90, rushers. Hancock, Speer and Church were substitutes last year. while Janeway and Bickham are comparatively new men. They both played on their class team last year, however, and will make good men if they retain their places on the team. The first game of the season last Saturday with Lafayette was quite a disappointment to the college, Lafayette holding the score down below fifty...
...remembered by those who witnessed the game last year, had a very strong team, and it was only by the hardest work that our team prevented it from carrying away the championship. This year the contest will be even more doubtful, both because Princeton, our most formidable opponent, will retain most of her old team, and because we have lost several of our best players. Of last year's team there still remain, Davidson, '88; Fowle, '88; Blake, '88; Griffing, '89; Harding, '89, and Morton...
Harvard will lose only a few of her foot-ball team this year, and Princeton will lose only one man, so that we will have to exert ourselves to the utmost to retain our position at the head of the league. It is impossible to get much valuable practice during the first week of the term on account of the poor physical condition of the men, and it therefore becomes necessary to be some what easy in the work until they be come somewhat used to it. We would therefore suggest and urge the men who were on the team...
...constitute the Union, I should have fallen painfully short of the performance of that duty. As secretary and treasurer of the Society I have now in my possession both its documents and its funds. However unpleasant it may prove to be, I shall regard it as my duty to retain possession of the property which has been entrusted to me until my successor has been legally elected...
...folly of working for a cup that cannot be won in perpetuity is to continue, Harvard ought to be able to retain even the temporary possession of it, and not let it go visiting among the various colleges. We hope that the result in New York to-day will be conducive to that end. Harvard's chances are good. If our men show, nerve they will...