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...McLeish sprained his ankle in yesterday's scrimmage and probably will not be able to play again until after Christmas. As a result of this injury, Coach Wachter will probably send Fitts to the forward berth, Tyson coming up from the second team to assume the duties of first string center. Two other changes have also been made in the make-up of the quintet, Rudofsky and Black of last year's Yearling five, replacing Feiring and Sipp in the back-field...
Although the Freshman five do not play their first contest until after the Christmas vacation, Coach Tolbert has been bringing his men along rapidly. At present the Yearling squad consists of a first string squad of 46 men and a large dormitory group, which really constitutes a second squad. As was the case in football last tall men on the dormitory squad will be carefully watched and as soon as their playing warrants will be shifted to the first string group...
There will be a second team this year as well as a first and a continuous challenge system will give second string men a chance to show their right to a place on the team. The same system will be inaugurated in regard to the freshman squad...
...from time immemorial been marked by mud-slinging and questionable tactics. For years, the few weeks preceding the election of a mayor were filled with bitter campaigning, of which no good citizen could well be proud. Cliques and gangs fought hard among themselves, and when all was over, the string of vituperation rankled on both sides. In latter days, these crude and unskillful methods have been discarded perhaps for those of a subtler and more effective nature; and the advent of cleaner, less personal contests seemed to be in sight...
Practice for the University squad yesterday afternoon consisted of three long practice scrimmages during the course of which nearly every man on the squad had a chance to play. No definite line-up was attempted because of the fact that several first string men were reserved for the evening's workout and were not sent in during the afternoon...