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No. 40.
VOL. IV.
MARCH, 1901.
gottfettfs. School Notes ... The late Bishop Creighton The New Scheme A Visit to Vulcan A Holiday in Switzerland... The School Concert Third Form Entertainment Football Review and Matches Chess Club Balance Sheets ... O.V.'s Column ... O.V.'s Dinner ... Worcester Cathedral Oxford and Cambridge Letters Correspondence ... In Memorlam
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a full criticism of the football team, we must refer the reader to the contribution in another column, but, perhaps a few remarks will not be out of place here That we had a good team, or at any rate one of the best we have had for some time, no one will deny; but somehow, during matches, the team seemed as if it wasn't "wound up properly," and something
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" didn't fit." The main fault appeared to lie in the left wing of the forwards and one of the backs. In our humble opinion, Fergusson should have been tried back before the Dean Close match, where he certainly was much better than forward. As soon as he had taught the forwards that they had to follow hard on the ball, he had done all he could.
The half-back line was this year a very good one. Rowe i. at centre and Fergusson ii. at left were certainly better than the average, and Steward on the right was one of the hardest working players in the team, though handicapped by lack of height and pace. Day i. at back was uniformly good, always a safe kick and hard tackier. Shuttleworth at outside right was a little slow, but had a wonderful power of centering. Escott i. at centre was always good, and Escott ii. inside right, though at times inclined to be selfish and shoot wildly, tried hard, and was faster than most of the line On the left wing, Stevens ii. and Williams sometimes combined excellently, but were handicapped through lack of pace and weight. Telfer, who finally settled in