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...matches so few in the year, that we are now coming to understand where the real power of the game lies. It is not the team which has the heaviest men, makes the most brilliant plays, and has the fastest runners, that is to win in the coming contest, but that eleven which employs every player to make each run, and where the ball is being continually passed from man to man. The science of the game is far more important now than mere strength. Let us remember this...
Class ball games will be omitted this year, and the only ball game expected is the freshman-sophomore contest, the principal object of which is to furnish the "sophs" a chance to give the "freshies...
...crimson on the water as well as on the land. The University crew will prove its powers in the Columbia race, and show the college what the long months of training have accomplished. That the "veritable Samsons," as the New London newspapers call them, will come out of the contest with new laurels we firmly believe, for the Columbia stroke is an essentially weak one. For this reason, although Columbia often has better material in her boat than her opponents, she has seldom rowed a successful race. As for the races of next week, we feel confident that they will...
...things look now, Yale will probably beat the Pennsylvania men; at least that is the opinion of the Harvard and Columbia crews, who, I suppose are as good judges as any. Yale looks upon this race simply as a practice pull, to prepare them for their contest with Harvard, and have consequently asked to have the east course, which, though generally considered the worse, is the one which they will use in the race with our 'varsity...
...minutes is about the average time made by college crews for a four-mile race, - although last year Harvard's time was even more than this, - but it must be borne in mind that on that day the conditions of the course were especially unfavorable. For a two mile contest from ten to twelve minutes, is good time. Two years ago the Columbia freshmen won in nine minutes and a fraction, but it is doubtful whether this record will be reached again, unless the course is in very good condition...