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...Clipper says that the recent action of the Harvard Committee in first prohibiting the contest and then permitting it under changed rules repressive of vicious "slugging," unfair "tackling," etc., advertised it, and was the real cause of the enormous crowd which witnessed the Yale game on Thanksgiving...
...faculty as regards changes in the rules, and the ruling of the convention on Columbia's forfeited games. These will be awaited with interest and we can only hope that they may both be satisfactory and best promote the interests of the sport as an inter-collegiate contest...
...again, and they retired in excellent condition. The college men began to arrive in large numbers as Thursday forenoon wore on, and as the hour of the game approached, the avenues leading to the Polo grounds became blocked by vehicles of every description bound for the scene of the contest. Nearly every coach in the city was out on this occasion, and as one after the other swept by, covered with enthusiastic supporters of the crimson or the blue, the effect was a most enlivening one. At 1,30 the crowds began to pour into the numerous entrances...
...been peculiar. At other colleges athletics are allowed to take their own course; at Harvard physical training is recognized as an important branch of education, and the faculty, therefore, 'interferes.' Foot-ball is too good a sport and too valuable an exercise to be allowed to degenerate into a contest of roughness and trickery...
...game with Yale Thanksgiving day, for though we shall not be able to put our strongest eleven in the field, it is certain that they will play a steadier game than they did with Princeton. As our game more nearly corresponds with Yale's a very good contest may be expected. Richards tried several times for goal from the fleld, but was always prevented from scoring by the activity of Princeton's rush. Hull, Peters and Knapp did very good work for the victorious team, while Moffat, Kimball and Lamar gained much of the advantage for the orange and black...