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...tired in the last set and played with extreme care, neither running up to the net much. Wrenn got the first two games and Read the third. From that point the score went to 3-2 in Wrenn's favor and then to 5-2. Here Read made a splendid brace and twice kept Wrenn from winning the decisive point of the match. With the score at 5-4, the last game went to Wrenn only after several deuces...
...practice was not very satisfactory. Most of the attention of the coaches was paid to the interference and team work. The playing was erratic. At times the interference on end plays was splendid, but again it was very loose and ragged. Hayes made several long runs round the right end, aided by some of the best interference seen this season. When the left end was tried it was seldom that the backs could put Whittren effectually out of the play, and time after time he broke through the blockers and brought the runner down...
Owing to the lack of team play '96 was unable to do much effective offensive work against the heavy Groton team. The backs were obliged run without interference, and were repeatedly downed before they cleared the rush line. The Groton team-work and interference were splendid...
...Brown, Hopkins and Millard did splendid work, the latter's tackling being a feature. Nott, Robinson and Donovan showed up strongly...
...chief excellence of the Harvard crew is the body work; for in both time and blade-work Yale excels. Where Harvard men may lay their hopes of their crew is in that splendid dash and vim and grit in which the crimson men go at their work. In the slower stroke Yale rows far the easier, more graceful stroke. But when they come to "hit up" the stroke to 36 and 37, as in the fourmile time row on Saturday, that superb finish vanishes. The time of that fourmile row was 21m. 10s., just one minute slower than the Thames...