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...reserve meets a strong eleven that will use every resource to win. However, we have great confidence in the ability and strength of our team and feel sure it will play brilliantly and with that fighting spirit that generally brings victory. We congratulate the Dartmouth men on the splendid eleven they are bringing to face us, and our welcome to that eleven and its supporters is but the heartier for the doubt in which the outcome of the contest remains...
...Saturday Harvard defeated Princeton 16 to 6. From the beginning to the end of the game, scarcely a fault could be found with the playing of the University team; its strength as a combination was only surpassed by Brickley's strength as an individual. Generalship, absence of fumbling, the splendid aggressiveness of the line, and above all the kicking of Brickley and Felton won the game for Harvard. Captain Wendell's injured ankle prevented his playing more than a minute. It is to be hoped that he will be in condition for the Yale game...
...first score by an opponent came in the Williams game, when as the result of a splendid succession of forward passes during the second period, Williams approached close enough to score a goal from the field. The line-up at the time, however, was composed almost entirely of second string men and can hardly be taken as proof of the lack of ability of the team as a whole. During both this game and the contest against Amherst a week later, the University team has shown that its greatest strength lies in line rushes and what is known...
...team is in splendid condition with the exception of Perkins who has an injured leg. His position at left guard is being filled by H. Amory. Watson who has been out since the Hitchkiss game with a bad knee is back again and may play in Saturday's game...
...donation of a commodious building is concerned; but to make a social Centre as Dr. Walker outlined it forty years ago, yet remains. I have spent the last two University years in Oxford where, after an absence of forty years, I was delighted to find the splendid new University Union buildings wherein such a spirit of social democracy was already prevailing that the old-timed distinctions and antagonisms which for centuries had made the Colleges like so many floating icebergs, were largely ignored and rapidly disappearing...