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Show "TEDDY," JR., TO PLAY LEFT END President's Son on Harvard Har-vard freshman Team; Will PlayYale Today. CAMBRIDGE. Mass., Nov. 18. Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt. Jr., will play left end on the Harvard freshman football eleven when the 19W!) youngsters meet the Vale freshies on Soldiers' field today. to-day. This announcement, made last night, caused no little stir among Harvard Har-vard undergraduates. All the season it was known that young Roosevelt had been putting up a great fight, but the feeling everywhere prevaHed that he was too light to be chosen for the final team. According to the "statistics" piven out, Teddy, Jr., is 18 years old, stands 5 feet 8 inches in height, weighs 145 pounds and prepared at Croton, where he played on the second team. He is nearly ten pounds heavier now, it is said, than at the beginning of the season, sea-son, yet is the lightest man. besides Quarterback Simon?, who weighs two pounds less, on the freshman fain. The average weight of the team is 16.", pounds. Speed, aggressiveness and grit are the qualities which have brought younsj Roosevelt to the for1 and which make him today the most talked-of freshman In the university. |