Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Month, reviews the foot ball diplomacy since November 5, and the championship series. It also mentions the university treasurer, and is closed by a comparison of the number of students in the university this year with those of the last four years. The usual book reviews are omitted...
DEAR SIRS.- A comparison of the scores that our eleven has made this year, in the games so far played, with those of former years shows that the team is not up to the usual average, for this time of the season. The playing of the team at Philadelphia, in the championship game with the University of Pennsylvania was very poor and clearly proves the necessity of hard work if the eleven is to be brought up to the desired standard...
...freshman eleven which played at Andover on Saturday was weakened by the absence of the regular half backs, but this fact is not sufficient to explain the severe defeat which the team received at the hands of the Phillips Academy eleven. The work of the freshmen in comparison withthat of the academy team was painfully slow and loose. The tackling as a rule was execrable, the blocking was not systematic, and the tendency to fumble the ball was very discouraging. The play of the academy eleven was uniformly good; Hinkey and Gilbert on the ends of the rush line...
...Storrow is sound on legwork, but this legwork without "form" will be of no avail against Yale. At New London this year the professionals thought the Yale crew rowed like professionals, yet their form was as good as ever. It was their watermanship and legwork which made the comparison possible. In addition to this the Yale crew were remarkable for what in England would be called "smartness," they were always under the influence of discipline, which goes a long way toward insuring success...
...Edwin Arnold in a recent interview, compared the discipline at Harvard with that at Oxford. The comparison is not unfavorable to Harvard as may be seen from the following quotations from the published intereview...