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Coach Campbell's Freshman football squad reported for practice yesterday, unscathed as a result of Saturday's battle with the Tiger 1925 team. Of the 19 men who played at various times in the contest, only three were not dressed at yesterday's workout and only one of these will not be ready today. None of them were injured in the clash with Princeton...
...Soldiers Field. Coach Fisher and his staff believe firmly that they have on hand the material and the spirit to overcome the Elis. Captain Kane and his men think the same. If the Centre College win put the Crimson players into the fighting mood that it did, the Tiger victory has brought that cool but enraged state of mind which brooks no defeat and which is usually determined enough to accomplish its purpose...
...line through which a major portion of the Princeton gains went Saturday. Secondly he must bring more smoothness and coordination into the backfield. There is plenty of power there, but twice in the Tiger battle a mix-up in the signals proved very costly to the Crimson. In the third place the University men must be in first-class physical condition for the Yale contest...
Aside from the general battering and mauling which the Crimson men received in the Tiger game only two serious injuries resulted from the struggle. Tierney and Crocker, the men in question, are both out with leg injuries, but will be ready to play in the Yale game. Other Crimson players who were not in tip-top condition Saturday are Chapin and Pfaffman. Both of these will be all right this week
When the big movement came to strike, the Tiger machine and had enough men ready and waiting to carry out a great play, which no team in a depressed frame of mind could have carried through. Harvard's field goal advantage has failed to break down Nassau's spirit or stop her hard fighting to the end of things. It was this great finishing spirit which brought about the Tiger snake dance up and down the field, the first one with a silent Harvard gathering looking on for a decade...