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...HAVEN, Sept. 21, 1895. The Yale squad has had four days of preliminary training. Captain Thorne appeared here last Tuesday, and within the next two days 10 candidates for places behind the line had reported for work. On Thursday the linemen began to come and now there are 20 here. The candidates include the few men left from last year's team, most of the members of last year's freshman eleven, but no new men. They will not be given a chance till after college opens next week Thursday...
There was no summer practice of the football squad this year. Captain Bewer, however, invited the most promising candidates for positions behind the line to spend a week with him at his summer home near Marion, Mass., and later on he also invited the candidates for line positions to play him a similar visit...
...regular fall practice began on Soldiers field last Monday afternoon when thirty-three candidates for the elven presented themselves. Since the new men have joined the squad daily that there are now about forty-five candidates for the team. On Tuesday the candidates for positions behind the line practiced in the morning while the line men came out in the afternoon. The same division was followed on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Saturday the men were all to practice together in the morning, but on account of the excessive heat they were sent on a run of three miles instead...
...coming freshman class will contribute a good share of the football squad this year. Among its members are several athletes who have already achieved considerable reputation and who promise to prove valuable men in Harvard athletics...
Chief among these is Egdar S. Holt who enters the Lawrence Scintific School. Holt weighs above 200 pounds and is six feet two inches tall. But fall he played for a time with the Harvard football squad, but decided to return to Andover where he played on the Phillips Academy eleven at right guard. His size, weight and experience of four years on the Andover eleven will make him a valuable...