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Battered down by the unparalleled endurance of Harvard's team and bewildered by the unerring accuracy of Harvard's drop-kicker, Yale has tasted defeat in the Stadium. Every man in whose veins flows Crimson blood rejoices in the triumph of the 1913 University football team. Never was a cleaner, harder, or more finished game of football seen on any field, than that of the team which Saturday indelibly wrote its name in Harvard history. The spectacle of that eleven, outplaying Yale at almost every moment, backed by the enthusiasm of ten thousand Harvard men, was the climax...
Marsters discussed the better and cleaner aspect of the game in recent years and said that Harvard teams had now attained a standard of excellence where the defeat of Johns Hopkins was most to be desired and worked for. This University has been undefeated for five years and every effort must be made to secure a victory for Harvard this season...
...game against Exeter last Saturday the Freshman team as a whole played together better than it has done at any previous time this season. The interference in the open field field formed better and quicker and put the opposing defence out of the play in a much cleaner manner than in the earlier games. On the other hand, the choice of plays frequently showed lack of judgment, and there was a noticeable number of fumbles, as well as a general weakness, at critical times...
...Oxford and Cambridge, than which no universities have turned out finer, cleaner, more manly, more highly cultivated, and more practically trained scholars, statesmen, empire builders, or more generous enthusiasts for general athletics and clean sport--in Oxford and Cambridge the purpose is study, and the honors are paid to the scholar. There are no undergraduate newspapers, no class meetings, no college politics, no football rallies, no business managers, no claques for organized applause, no yell leaders, no dances, no social functions of the mass. Social intercourse during term between the sexes is strictly forbidden; and it is a matter...
...first, are both very reliable at the position. Lanigan is playing a good game at third base and his batting is better now than it was at the opening of the season. Marshall and Carr had an even competition for shortstop, and Marshall has won out by his cleaner fielding, though he is weak at the bat. Young has caught very well through the season, but in the last few games has shown the strain that the position makes on a man of light weight. Reeves or Brown may have to relieve him in the final games...