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1908-09 ATHLETIC PROSPECTS

Outlook for Baseball, Football, Track and Rowing.

Following is the outlook for the University baseball, football and track teams, and the University crew for next year, based on the showing of the past season:

The Baseball Team.

With one or two exceptions the regular players on this year's University team will be together next year. Captain Leonard, who has played third base for four years, and who has been one of the best batters and base-runners on the team, as well as an exceptional fielder, will leave College this year. It is doubtful if McCall will return to College next year, and possibly Harding may not be back.

Hartford and Hicks, who have done some remarkably good pitching this year, will form a strong pitching staff for next season. R.G. McKay from this year's Freshman team will also prove a valuable man. Of the other pitchers on the University team, D.O. Slater '08 and D.C. Brennan '08 will graduate. Lanigan, who pitched a few games this year, will probably be used in the box very little next year.

Currier and Simons will form a nucleus for a good infield if McCall and Harding do not return. Briggs, Hall, and Hann, captain of this year's Freshman team, will be candidates for first base. J.C. Hamlen '09, R.W. Rowley '09, and R.S. Marshall '10, of this year's second team, and P.S. Twitchell '11 should develop into fast players and may secure positions in the infield. W.G. Carlisle, substitute catcher, will graduate, and his position will be filled by R.C. Brown '10, who was ineligible this year, and J. Sweetser '11. F.W. Kemble '08, substitute infielder on this year's team will graduate.

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The outfield, with Lanigan, Harvey, and Aronson eligible, should remain intact. If Dana should improve in his batting he might win a place again. From the Freshman team McLaughlin may be useful. J.D. Pounds '08, substitute outfielder will graduate.

Football.

The regular University eleven loses by graduation this spring nine of its players, and of the four substitutes who played during part of the Yale game last fall, two will graduate. Of the men who have won their football "H" either in 1907 or in past years, Captain F.H. Burr '09, H. Fish, Jr., '10, S. Hoar '09, G.G. Browne '10, and V.P. Kennard '09, will be eligible for next year's team.

From the present outlook there will be an abundance of material for the end positions. G.G. Browne, Houston, Peirce and Forster of last year's squad will be available, and in addition there will be Cooper, of the second team, and Crowley, Corbett, Rogers, and Harding of the Freshman eleven. Harding played tackle on his eleven last season, but on account of his light weight, he will probably be tried out at end. R.C. Brown, ex-captain of his Freshman team, who was unable to play last fall on account of illness, will probably be able to play next year and should prove a valuable-man.

For tackle, there will be Captain Burr, except in case of his being shifted back to his former position at guard, Fish, Kennard, Robinson, Hadden, Philippbar, and Comstock, of the second eleven, and Oveson and MacKay, of the Freshman team. There seem to be very few good guards, and with Burr at tackle the best candidates will be Hoar and Forchheimer, and McGuire and Dunlap, the Freshman guards. The other guards of last year's second and Freshman teams are hardly heavy enough for the University eleven.

Nourse will probably fill the centre position. He was Grant's substitute throughout the past season, and, like Grant, plays a very snappy game. The other centres are Smith, of the Freshman team, a light but quick player, and Dore of the second team.

There will be considerable difficulty in filling the quarterback position left vacant by the graduation of Newhall and Starr. The most likely candidates are Cate, Galatti and Cutting, who has had the least experience in that position, but was given much attention towards the close of the past season. G.G. Browne, the end, was also tried out at quarterback during the recent spring practice.

For fullback as for end, there is more material than for the other positions. Blumer and Waterbury, the University substitutes, White and Gray, the second team's backs, and Cutler and Minot of the Freshman eleven are all first-rate players. W.H. Brown, a former Exeter player, who was ineligible to play last fall, is a heavy and powerful fullback. Doubtless some of these men will be transferred to halfback, for which position the only regular candidates seem to be Gilbert and Graydon of last year's squad.

The Track Team.

The experience of the past few years has emphasized the uncertainty of predicting track meets far ahead. Men winning points one year may fail to score another year, while only a slight improvement may bring to the fore someone unplaced in former races. A great deal depends on the material at hand for the development of a team, and a great deal more depends on training and acquisition of experience in competitions. Of those who scored in the dual meet and the intercollegiate this year the following nine men will form a nucleus for next year's team: Captain W.M. Rand '09, T.S. Blumer '10, G.P. Gardner, Jr., '10, R.G. Harwood '09, C.C. Little '10, E.K. Merrihew '10, R.P. Pope '10, F.M. deSelding '10, and W.N. Whitcher '09. There are only a few other members of this year's University team and one or two Freshmen who may be considered from their present records as in the point-winning class.

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