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...Harvard coaching staff does not expect to start the game against Brown next Saturday with many, if any, of the men who started the game with Princeton. Their purpose is to avoid possible injuries to first-string men and to give the substitutes who may be used against Yale experience in a hard game. Under these circumstances, although the team which will start will be by no means a weak one, the management feels that it ought to give both graduates and the public who have purchased tickets with the expectation of seeing first-string men start the game...
These men were not in the game for long, as the substitutes did the bulk of the work. That they were not pushed is an indication that Coach Haughton is likely to start only his second-string men against Brown on Saturday, although that college has one of the most powerful teams it has produced in recent years. Considering the weather and its effects, there was a minimum of loose playing. The only man who did not report for practice was D. G. Lovell '17, who is suffering with a slight cold, but he will report this week...
...years past the Harvard coaches have decided to play a substitute team against whichever eleven it players on the Saturday preceding the Yale game. What the policy this year will be is still unsettle, although there is but very little to choose between the first eleven and the first-string substitutes. In fact, in all the games up to date, the substitutes have acquitted themselves fully as well as the first team...
...impregnable defence, Brown was able to decisively defeat Yale Saturday by a 21 to 6 score. But this defeat cannot be regarded as a just criterion of Yale's true strength, for the latter team, unwilling to risk its regulars, used eighteen players in the contest. These second-string men, however, were no match for the fast Brown aggregation, when open play was started...
...substitute team was started against Virginia. The substitutes showed up extremely well and walked over the Southerners by a 51-to-0 score. This game was a final proof of the fact that the University had "come back," for seven touchdowns were scored by the first, second and third string substitutes. The Crimson team had changed from an aggregation of eleven men each of whom appeared good individually, to a machine of eleven men, all working as a unit, into which substitutes could be added without impairing its efficiency...