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Coach Roper kept his first lineup intact today and appears sure that this team will face Harvard. A second backfield, composed of Ewing, Bridges, Weekes, and Beares, seems likely to replace the first quartet of Caulkins, Slagle Dignan, and Gilligan. Weekes has been out with an injury but will probably be in shape by Saturday...
There is no natural antagonism between academic prestige and a good running backfield. The situation is, in certain respects, like capital and labor. The division arises from the blindness or stupidity of one or the other. For the purposes of healthy, vigorous America both are necessary; and there is room for both. The party, whether it be professor or athlete, who creates a division between the two is an enemy to both...
...should be evident that the CRIMSON has not anticipated to set up an unnatural antagonism between academic prestige and a good running backfield." Scholarship and athletics should be complementary, each occupying its proper place. They should stand in the same relation to each other as mind and body in man, each necessary in its own way for well-rounded development...
...discredit a statement in an editorial appearing in Wednesday morning's CRIMSON. On the return postal card were printed a statement by a New York sports writer to the effect that Harvard would willingly trade President Lowell, President Eliot and an assortment of department heads for a good running backfield, and a quotation from the CRIMSON's editorial refuting the charge. The recipient of each postal card was asked to check his opinion on each quotation "in the interest of statistics," and return the card...
Last Saturday Princeton topped Swarthmore without great difficulty, thus winning the third of the victories Roper predicted before the season started. With Gates back in splendid form the Princeton line is improved, and the backfield strong although Weekes is probably out of the Harvard game with injuries sustained last Saturday. Princeton and Harvard both will be after their fourth victory of the season next Saturday