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...visitors Speir, Stagg and Kell did the best work. The playing of Spaulding at full-back was also good; he can be depended upon to kick the ball every time be is expected to do so. The rush line was not so strong as it was expected to be; this was doubtless due in a large measure to the absence of Corbin, and of DeHart who is said to keep his rushers at work as well as any quarter in the country...
...centre, the two Storrs at guard, Gill, Burdick or Marshall playing tackles, and Bovaird and S. Mowry on the ends, is especially formidable. Back of the line DeHart is playing a game at quarter which has caused him to be compared very favorably with Beecher in his best days. Speir and Mowry are both rushing strongly; they keep their feet well, and Mowry especially is a very deceptive dodger. Kell seldom fails to get his foot on the ball when it is passed back to be kicked, no matter how closely he is pressed. The tackling of the whole team...
...senior class at Princeton held a class meeting Wednesday night and elected the following officers: president, J. J. Charlton, of Oregon; secretary, L. D. Speir of New Jersey; presentation orator. H. H Janeway of New Jersey; ivy orator, F. F. Chambers of the District of Columbia: censor, H. W. Perrin of Pennsylvania; poet, D, L. Pierson of Pennsylania; class of '76 debater, J. M. Yearkle of Pennsylvania; class of '76 orator, Walter Lowrie of Pennsylvania; class orator Frank Palmer of Maine; master of ceremonies, K, L. Ames of Illinois; prophet, I. B. Smith of Iowa; class day committee...
Phillips Andover.- Rushers, Hunt, Mowry, Coxe, Speir, (centre), Upton, Townsend, Gilbert; quarter-back, Owsley; half backs, Sprague and Bliss; full-back, Stone...
Andover-Rushers, Hunt, Mowry, Coxe, Speir, Upton, Townsend, Murchie; quarter-back, Onsley; halfs, C. A. Bliss, L. T. Bliss; full-back, Sprague...