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...ninth annual cross-country run of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America will take place over the new West Rock course at New Haven at 11 o'clock. Fourteen colleges have sent in entries and a long string of starts will make a strong fight for individual honors. Cornell is picked to win the team championship, and second place will be fought out between Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Williams and Maine. The latter's chances are slight, however, as they were defeated in the New England Intercollegiates by Williams...
...second string men, though not as powerful as the regulars, has been closely drilled so that if any linesman should be injured the strength of the defence will not be noticeably weakened by the insertion of a substitute...
...University, declares that Yale has the stronger team, and should win next Saturday's game at New Haven. Mr. Robinson does not attach much significance to the fact that the University team which met Brown was composed of substitutes, for he says: "Personally, I believe that so-called second-string men, with the ambition to be first-string men, are a harder proposition than veterans anxious to be in the best shape for the final game. However this may be, it is fair to assume that the two games showed the comparative strength of the two teams, both...
...successful development of the team, the date of the Brown game should be earlier in the football schedule. Either give Brown a date when Harvard's strongest team can oppose her, or run the ever-present chances of injuries to our best players and play the first-string men on the usual date...
With most of the University regulars in storage for the Yale game, our eleven lost to Brown on Saturday afternoon; but this absence of first-string material can by no means minimize an ably won victory, for, with the wonderful Pollard, the Brown players would have given the regulars a hard battle. Although defeated, the Harvard team did not give up fighting until the last whistle was blown. Thus, as the New York Times says, the victory "should not detract from Haughton's prowess, but redound to the greater glory of Ed. Robinson's football pupils...