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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...Harvard Christian Association held its annual reception to new students in Brooks House last night. The attendance was much larger than usual, nearly two hundred men being present. Great interest was shown in the short addresses by Professor Platner, Mr. C. W. Birtwell '85, Right Reverend William Lawrence '71, Mr. Edward Sturgis '90, and Rev. Dr. Alexander McKenzie. Later in the evening refreshments were served...
...football team will play its first game of the season with Wesleyan on Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock this afternoon. After only two weeks practice with such a large squad, it is very difficult and hardly desirable to put the strongest combination of men in the field. The team has, however, learned the elementary points of the game, and in the last few days of scrub practice, has formed fast and close interference. Practically the same men have played on the first eleven since Wednesday and should therefore have developed some team play. Wesleyan, on the other hand...
...second and fourth elevens lined up next. The second was much the stronger and scored twice in two short halves...
...Lewis '95 and J. S. Cochrane '99 were out in football clothes, and worked hard over the linesmen. The preliminary practice at punting, tackling and breaking through was hard and fast and it was late in the afternoon before the first eleven lined up against the third of two halves of eight and five minutes each. In the signal practice, the coaches drilled the backs carefully in the formation of the plays, but in the line-up the results of this were hardly apparent. The first eleven made good interference and gained repeatedly around the ends, but could not make...
...similar to that of the past few days but in view of the fact of the Wesleyan game on Saturday an estimate of the men was taken for the first cut in the squad. About 20 men have been dropped. Brayton, fullback on the second eleven for the past two years, Pruyn '02, end on his freshman team; and Alexander 1L a new fullback came out for the first time...