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...College has seen a winning eleven, or a winning crew, or a winning nine. This year has begun badly, but let the College make it end better. Regard defeat not as a disagreeable necessity, but as a disgrace that can be borne no longer. Let the whole University back the crew, the nine, and the Mott Haven team with all their might and ninety-one's victories can be repeated...
...little of your space, I should like to make a suggestion. We are too much given to coddling our defeated athletes. This is because we are used to defeat, and take it as a matter of course. But it will never win a football match. We should make a decided difference between a victory and a defeat and in our attitude towards the players who contributed to each. There is altogether too much nonsense in the annual consolation that "they did the best they could," "they played a sandy, up-hill game," "they played like gentlemen, anyway." Why, many enthusiasts...
...undergraduates could know the feeling toward Harvard which exists down town among men who didn't go to college. Her name coupled with athletics is a laughing-stock. What is worse, owing to the present prominence of athletics, the name of Harvard as a university, from constant association with defeat, is loosing its reputation among a number of men, who, not graduates themselves, have sons who will soon be old enough for college...
...hearted policy toward the players themselves. I have had some small athletic experience, and know that if they have the right stuff in them, it will do them good. We want the spirit which characterized the coaching after the Yale game two years ago, which resulted in the overwhelming defeat of Pennsylvania. We want more of the kind that followed the Princeton game this year. It may hurt the feelings of eleven men to be cursed out after a defeat, but not as much as it aggravates eleven hundred men constantly to hear the name of their Alma Mater held...
Will a man play harder if he knows that after a losing game there are friends eager to crowd around and wipe away his tears, or if he knows that, defeated, he will be given the cold shoulder? I know this sounds hard, but success is worth the price. We want, not the spirit that accepts defeat with resignation, but the spirit that will not tolerate...