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...West tackled hard and blocked well. The fumbles, which were still numerous, were caused mainly by excitement and nervousness, as a number of men were in the game for the first time. Bowdoin, though the backs were heavy and fast, was able to make but one first down on straight football, and one on a clever end run by F. Smith...
Yale defeated Syracuse last Saturday by the score of 15-0, showing great improvement in every department of the game. Syracuse was unable to make any steady gain, while Yale used both straight football and the forward pass to good advantage...
...University was represented by G. P. Gardner '10, C. S. Cutting '12, H. Nickerson '11, and A. Sweetser '11. In the first round Stevens of Yale defeated Cutting in straight sets, while Gardner easily won from Allinson of Haverford. Gardner and Sweetser came through the second round, winning from Holden of Yale, and Thayer of Pennsylvania, respectively; but Nickerson was defeated by Johnson of Pennsylvania, the winner of the championship. Sweetser alone survived the third round, thereby winning his way into the semi-finals, while Gardner, showing a reversal of form, was defeated by Long, of California, in a three...
...inning started well. Harvey singled over second base after Lanigan had gone out, pitcher to first. Murphy let the ball get by him and Harvey took an extra base. Currier advanced him to third, but was out at first himself. Simons met the ball squarely only to send it straight into Murphy's hands for the third out. For the next few innings the hits were wasted for either they came too late or the men were out trying to steal second. Lanigan opened the sixth with a clean hit to centre and Harvey's out, Logan to Jefferson...
Harvard Crew Quarters, Red Top, Conn., June 17, 1909.--Today's work for all the crews was the hardest since the arrival of the squads. As there was a strong south wind blowing straight down the course in the morning, the practice was necessarily very light. All the crews, except the Freshman four which went up into Moulthrop Inlet, rowed over to the west shore opposite the Freshman quarters at Red Top and paddled up and down over the last half-mile of the course. But in the afternoon the University crew was sent over the four-mile course...