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...Each step from Professionalism toward real amateurism will bring increasing numbers of poorer players out for teams. These are the very men who need the exercise, who need this opportunity for physical development. Their presence on the fields will not detract from the pleasure or efficiency of the first-string...
...individual talent. Black and Callahan from Yale, Schlacter of Syracuse and Green of Dartmouth in the line form a powerful combination. As backfield players, there will be Barrett, captain at Cornell, with Gerrish of Dartmouth and Hite and Gardner from the Middle West. The team had an unbroken string of victories until the cohesive play of Rutgers defeated the sailors' individual efforts in a 14-to-0 game in New York. The University informals were among the teams defeated by the Rhode Island squad...
...punters. Robinson was the regular quarterback and much the best drop-kicker of the 1916 squad, and Thacher was the regular left halfback. Weston was a guard on the eleven captained by C. E. Brickley '17 which defeated Yale 41 to 0. Wiggin was the strongest of the second-string centres last fall...
With the Princeton game coming the following Saturday, Coach Wallace drove the men hard for several days. Permanent shifts were made in several positions of the line to make better use of the first-string material, and as a result the team came through with a 24 to 0 victory...
...keynotes of practice from now on, as these have been the chief defects in the team's play throughout the season. A final polishing of the attack with the addition of new defensive formations will also be emphasized. Little scrimmage will be attempted, however, for fear of first-string men in the Yale game...