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Superior generalship won Yale the great game at Springfield on Saturday. This tells the whole story of defeat in as accurate and concise a form as possible. The score was 6 to 0, but while it suggests the closeness of the struggle, it tells little about the comparative merits of the teams...
...gives us as much pleasure as it would if Harvard had won. We can thank the team for the faithfulness which has kept them up to their work through thick and thin, and the coaches for the assistance which they have given in developing the material. The line of defeats which Harvard has sustained has logically produced as much effect in one direction as the line of victories has for Yale in another. Against the discouraging influence of these defeats Harvard has worked away with a will and the only thing she has lost is the game; her self respect...
...that because the eleven is so good, we are bound to win; what this part does mean is that the chances are good, that the men have been working all the fall in the proper spirit,- the determination to play as they never played before. If defeat comes, it will be the fault of nobody, it will be because we were outdone by superior ability...
Much has been said in the papers of late about "slugging" in football, some of it sound sense, some of it harmless opinion, much of it going far to defeat its own purpose because of its ignorance. The gist of it all is this, that there has been too much "slugging" this year, and that something ought to be done to stop it. With these two main ideas we quite agree. The recent development of the various mass plays where many of the players are hidden from view has undoubtedly done much to render easy the settlement of private grudges...
...sure, the 'varsity were making a steady gain of ground when time was called; yet there was much shouting and dallying and wasting of time. Such "horse play" as this where every graduate has his say, can produce nothing but confusion, and in the end it will defeat its own aim and no good will result from it. By all means, this series of games with the graduates is an excellent thing provided it does not degenerate into mere...