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Coach Haines' regular fall crews will meet their first and only test of the season tomorrow afternoon at 4.15 o'clock when the first Freshman eight will compete with all three of the University crews on the mile and seven-eighths course in the Basin from the Cottage Farm bridge down...
...practice only, the lacrosse management has scheduled one game with the Boston Lacrosse Club, to be played on Soldiers Field at 2 o'clock this afternoon. As only those men who did not go to Princeton are included in today's line-up, the contest will be no real test of the Crimson strength...
...sterner test was in wait for the Crimson the following week. The strong and speedy Holy Cross eleven came down from Worcester determined to break the University's no defeat record. True they were outweighed to a man, but what they lacked in weight, they made up in aggressiveness. Being forced back to their own seven-yard line and extended to the limit by their lighter opponents, the redjerseyed players barely nosed out a 3-0 victory when Buell sent the pigskin over the bars from the 37-yard line. By holing on their seven-yard line Coach Fisher...
...winning from Princeton by one point, the team gave us a pleasant surprise, and demonstrated that each man was doing his utmost, not counting on a few faster men to bring in enough points for victory. The prowess of Cornell on the track is well known, and the test tomorrow should prove at last as severe as last week's. But if the same spirit is shown in this week's race, an even more satisfying victory may be expected...
...Saturday comes the first real test for the 1925 football team. Its record so far has not been imposing; it will be outweighed by the Tiger Cubs; after a tie game last year Princeton is out for victory. There is one thing the Freshman team needs, and so far has had to do without--support. Small attendance at early season games is understandable, when the University has been playing alongside. But on Saturday 1925 will hold the center of the stage in the Stadium. There should be no necessity to plead for a backing from the first year...