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...thousand pities that the accidents connected with the game of foot-ball are of such a nature as to force themselves upon the attention of the spectator, and to leave behind an impression of roughness and brutality which is not borne out by facts. The casualties are usually of a sort painful for the moment, but not grave; for one serious accident, such as befell Captain Holden last week, there could probably be counted a larger proportion in base ball, in lacrosse, or even in the usual course of regular gymnastic training. But no comment is too harsh to represent...
...different things. It would be amusing, if it were not interfering with the proper understanding of a vital subject, to read, within a day or two, in the columns of one of our city journals, which has over and over again devoted half a page to minute and brutal accounts of a prize fight, an indignant paragraph on the "barbarism" and "run-a-muck culture" of the Harvard-Princeton game. It declares: "The fierce tumult of young passins, the battered features, the contused limbs, the broken bones, the sprains and welts, and gashes, and bloodstains that made the record...
...with a hearty appreciation of his staunch and able argument for a universal recognition of the game. Probably no one person has been so convinced of the injustice of many leading newspapers in this country in perverting the real nature of the game besides denouncing it as being too brutal and rough, as Professor Johnson. Newspapers have so utterly misrepresented the game as to make it appear to the general public a diminutive war, into which the contesting sides go with the avowed intention of maiming bodies, dislocating joints and other similar features such as characterize a modern rough...
...most universal sanction and approval, and yet newspaper criticism doubtless caused the 'general disposition to consider the game one which is objectionable as a game for students who are gentlemen.' The criticisms passed upon the game as regards its innate roughness' and of its 'tendency to degenerate into brutality and personal combat' are reviewed. As regards the first point, the writer, in a very lucid style, explains its true and false sides. Its true side, he states, comes in when teams of other than leading colleges in the game, try to play as hard as possible without the least preparation...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I was not a little surprised, though not at all displeased, at the almost brutal attack the Advocate makes in its issue of yesterday on the venerable Harvard Union. To tell the truth, the Advocate's savage strictures seem to me to be the more unfeeling, because they are undoubtedly true; where the fault lies, and how it is to be remedied, is the awkward question which must be soon decided. There is an abuse, quite as had as the rest, which the writer of the editorial in question did not point out, and that...