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There are almost forty men training with the football squad...
...gymnasium presents a very lively appearance on afternoons at present. Squads of men are seen exercising in different parts of the building-some at the chest-weights and others with the Indian clubs, dumb-bells, etc.; in fact things begin to look decidedly business-like. The Mott Haven candidates are working regularly every afternoon, and also the football squad, which is now very large, is diligently at work under the supervision of Captain Cumnock and Mr. Lathrop. It is the purpose of the managers to let the men work together for a while and learn just what they...
...football squad which is now daily at work in the gymnasium under the direction of Mr. Lathrop has been formed for the purpose of bringing more directly under the observation of Captain Cumnock all those men, in whatever branch of the university they may be, who seem to be at all fitted for a position on next year's eleven. The men are under the command of ex-Captain Sears, who will also watch the candidates carefully. Everyone who considers himself at all likely to be able to play football, whether he has played before or not, is expected...
...disturbance. Finally the "townies" obtained some hose, and fastening it to a fire plug, turned the water on the students, who charged in a body and, after a hard battle, captured the hose and turned it on the crowd. The melee was settled by the appearance of a squad of police who cleared the streets...
...Capt. Willard decided early in the season that a light but systematic course was the one to be adopted. This course has been varied but little during the year and is substantially as follows: Three times a week the game of handball is practiced in the cage by squads of four men from fifteen to twenty minutes a day. As soon as the time for one squad is over and the next one is ready, the men go through a light dumb-bell drill, and then take a run at an easy pace of about seven laps. Four years...