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Coach Fielding H. Yost has been drilling his squad of forty men at Ann Arbor since September 5. With an unusually exacting schedule before him, he has been facing the large task of building up an entire new line, and of filling the halfback vacancy caused by the graduation of Craig, mainstay of last season's eleven. The weakness of the line is a serious problem, none of the green material looking especially promising. The departure of veterans has left five big holes, with no valuable substitutes, even those available being a little under weight...
...team which shall merit our highest approbation. In their efforts to build such a team they have our unbounded interest and hearty support. From the experience of recent years we well realize that eleven men, and not a few individuals, make the victorious type of football team. A difficult task confronts the coaches in choosing these eleven men. They must be qualified to work as a unit against the strongest opposition Harvard has yet known. Michigan, Princeton, Yale, and every other team on the schedule will battle their hardest to defeat us. It is in realization of this that...
...team started the season with the best material in years. Only four men who played in the championship series against Yale last year were lost. These men were Felton, pitcher; Young, catcher; Tomes, third base; and Alsop in the outfield. Coach Sexton's greatest task this season has been in developing a catcher but he has succeeded, even beyond his expectations, as both Osborn and Waterman have played thoroughly satisfactory ball this spring. Waterman did the bulk of the backstop work earlier in the season but in the recent games he has been alternating with Osborn...
...Camp and Sturgis in the pole vault and hammer throw respectively. From this brief forecast it becomes at once evident that the winner of no event is certain at this point, that several records should be broken, and that to choose the ultimate victor is indeed a difficult task...
Although it is, if you please, a difficult task to characterize, in a few hundred words, such a variety and range of subject matter as is contained in the May number of the Illustrated, still it is comparatively easy to do so in a single word. That word is "Interesting...