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...FACULTY OF HARVARD COLLEGE, GENTLEMEN :-On the 22 of Nov., 1883, the Committee on Athletics, believing that the game of foot ball had begun to degenerate into a brutal and dangerous contest, informed the Captain of the Harvard eleven that the team could not be allowed to take part in any further inter-collegiate match games until substantial changes in the rules had been made. According to the rules then existing, a player could back, throttle, butt, trip up, tackle below the hips. or strike an opponent with closed fist three times before he was sent from the field...
...time is so short, and the game of foot ball, properly played, a good one, we may venture to suggest to the students that the proper way for them to contest the case is to request from the committee specifications of the charges, or the evidence on which they are based.-N. Y. Post...
...charges of brutality are altogether exaggerated. That only is brutal which is entered into in a brutal spirit. In any contest of rough strength in which great ends are at stake, the players are easily roused into a state of great excitement, under which they treat not their opponents only, but themselves, without much thought of results, But it is always in most thorough good feeling. However fierce the game may have been, we can recall no instance of a player bearing personal animosity toward any opponent after the game had ended...
...body to cheer the work of the team. The eleven certainly deserves the support of the class and should feel confident of obtaining it. We certainly hope that a large and enthusiastic crowd will be present tomorrow to encourage the efforts of Harvard in the first inter-collegiate contest in which '88 is to take part...
...referce having been chosen from among the spectators, the ball was "set," to use their expression, and the elevens lined up, the reds having the west end and the wind. The contest began with a lively rush and skirmish on the right flank of the reds, until a long drawn "d-ow-n" from the bottom of a pile of ebony rushers ended it and the men pulled themselves off. The quarter-backs were so good and the blocking so steady, that the side which had the "down" usually lost many yards before another halt was made. "Line up, Charley...