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Amid the excitement attendant upon the game with Yale on Manhattan Field, Princeton has been quietly preparing for another contest with Yale of quite another sort. Last Wednesday evening the representatives of Whig and Clio Halls met in the interhall contest in Old Chapel to decide who should represent Princeton in the Yale-Princeton debate, to occur on Dec. 6. Dean Murray presided and the judges were Charles E. Green, LL. D., of the Board of Trustees; Professor W. M. Daniels and L. C. Hull of Lawrenceville. Clio's representatives were J. B. Cochran '96, G. H. Waters...
...season Yale's opinions were very reserved, and there was hope instead of confidence, in spite of the encouraging press opinions and the reliance the public seemed ready to put in that hackneyed article, "Yale sand." The Princeton game this year was undoubtedly a hard-fought, even, honorbly played contest, which ought to do a great deal for the continuance of this branch of athletics. Undergraduates have never before attended this game in such numbers; in fact, in this respect at least, it almost equalled the Springfield games...
Saturday's football game was one in which every Harvard man has a right to take pride. It was a first rate contest from beginning to end, won fairly and squarely by Pennsylvania, lost pluckily and honorably by Harvard. Certainly, however disappointed we may be that the final score was against us, we can feel that there was a decided victory for good clean sport, a victory in which Harvard shared not less than Pennsylvania and upon which both can look with equal satisfaction...
...moment anything but clean and manly football, it would be far better for the sport that it were not played, and not a few would feel like losing faith in their own expressed convictions as to the healthiness of the game. We have every reason to expect that the contest will be beyond all question in this regard...
...glad to extend the welcome of Harvard to the representatives of the University of Pennsylvania. The games which they have played with Harvard in the past have been characterized by a spirit of rivalry which has left both the victors and the defeated in each contest as much friends as ever. We are sure that there will be no change in that respect today...