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...from the field by C. B. Marshall. Both elevens played hard and fast and showed a great deal of fight. The greatest improvement noticeable since the last open practice was in the superior team work of the University eleven, especially on the offense, when the team worked as a unit in helping and pulling along the runner. On the defense the team showed power, and except in a few instances, prevented the second from making consecutive gains for any considerable distance. The play was marred by a number of fumbles by the first eleven, although the ball was almost always...
...play. Poor team work has been one of the unavoidable results of the team's slow development, and it will be interesting to note from the play in today's game how far the secret practice of the last ten days has gone towards welding the eleven into a unit...
...better showing than it has in the practice of the last two days. On the other hand, it is impossible to expect fast individual play by men who are out of the game half the time, or to expect effective team-work from an eleven which, as a unit, has had little consecutive practice in perfecting itself either on the offensive or defensive. The disorganized practice, caused since the West Point game by a number of little injuries to the first team men, has done little to develop the team or to drill the potentially able players into actual strength...
...this early date the chances for a good University crew next spring must necessarily be rather inadequate. In the making of a fast crew, so comparatively little depends on the individual ability of the material, and so much upon the training of the men to row as a unit that the prospects at present are, to say the least indefinite...
During the last few days the Harvard eleven has been improving slowly, but neither individually nor as a unit has it shown great promise. At times the play is almost sluggish and the tendency toward unsteadiness makes the strength of the team very uncertain...