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...large increase in the subscriptions received from the western part of the country is expected after the football trip to Pasadena. Up to recently less than 9 per cent, of the 1500 graduates living on the Pacific Coast had subscribed to the Fund. It is hoped that several hundred thousand dollars will be subscribed, due to the presence of the football team in California...
This plan to send the team to the Pacific Coast was brought to the attention of the Athletic Committee a few days ago by a telegram from W. C. Whitmer '12, Secretary of the Harvard Club of Southern California. Mr. Whitmer told of the strong feeling in the west in favor of having the University football team play one of the best coast teams at the annual Pasadena Tournament of Roses on New Year's day. He urged the value of the game in the favorable impression it would make on the alumni of the coast, and cited the cases...
...feeling here is very strong among college men and the Press that the Harvard football team should be sent to meet the best college team of this coast on New Year's Day, at the annual Pasadena Tournament of Roses. The occasion is a most dignified one, and the experience of Brown and Pennsylvania demonstrates the value of the game to the alumni on the coast...
...previous years the chief difficulty has been the shortness of the Christmas recess, but this year one day's extension of the time set by the college office would be ample to allow the team to reach Pasadena and pass a week getting acclimated to Coast conditions...
...There is no doubt that the appearance of the teams in Pasadena would help in a large measure to quicken the Endowment Fund campaign on the Pacific Coast," said Major Moore, "and for this reason, if for no other, the invitation probably will be accepted. Several Faculty members of the Athletic Committee have intimated that they would favor its acceptance...