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Coach Hinckey is driving the Yale eleven at top speed this week and had every first-string player on hand for practice yesterday and, with the exception of Higginbotham and Van Holt, all were in the regular line-up. It was announced that there is no chance of using Higginbotham in the Princeton game on Saturday, as his injured ankle is not fully recovered. It is very problematical whether Van Holt will play or not as his wrist is still very weak...
...scrimmage between the University team and the second eleven was fast and fierce. No touchdowns were made by either eleven, inasmuch as neither team was permitted to remain on the attack for any length of time. The work of the first string men showed improvement, increased power and a noticeable smoothness being apparent. A feature of the scrimmage was the drop-kicking of Mahan. Six times he tried to score on field goals, and but one attempt was a failure...
...second string men were given more attention than is customary, the coaches evidently wishing to fortify any weakness that injuries to the regulars would cause. The University substitutes also opposed the second team in a stiff scrimmage in which the second string backfield, composed of Whitney, McKinlock and King, with Watson at quarter, showed evidence of good line-plunging ability, and Whitney succeeded in putting two pretty drop-kicks over the bar, both, however, from an easy range...
...backfield men was a question. The University waited with anxiety for the first scheduled contest in order that they might judge the team's worth and learn the style of game in which Michigan was to specialize. A scrub game between a tentative university team and the supposed second string men served only to mark the difference in quality which would eixst between the line and the backfield of the regular team when it had been definitely chosen. Coach Yost then gathered together the men who seemed to have fight and weight and drilled into them the rudiments...
...University team faced the second string men for a painstaking drill in formations, both defensive and offensive, that lasted for a long hour. Then all regulars who were on the semi-invalid list were taken out of the line-up and a stiff quarter-hour scrimmage was held between the two teams. The first string men were unable to score a touchdown, but four times advanced near enough to the goal-line to permit Mahan to essay drop-kicks. Of four attempts, three were successful, one being from the 42-yard line...