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Harvard lost again to Yale at Hampden Park, Springfield, on Saturday by a score of 6 to 0. It was a magnificent game from start to finish and with the defeat comes the feeling of pride in the eleven which represented the college so nobly. Nothing but praise is heard for the honorable, scientific, straightforward game which the eleven put up. Considered in comparison with the games of the season it stands in striking contrast, while the work of the coaches during the past ten days has shown that Harvard has at last found graduates among her ranks...
...defeat for us nevertheless and Harvard looks upon it as such, and will bear it worthily. That the team was a failure, however, she will not admit. Every man who witnessed that game was and is proud of the eleven and has nothing but the deepest respect for the men who composed it. The whole college, too, is grateful beyond measure for what each and every one of the coachers has done, to Arthur Cumnock and Perry Trafford particularly, though the others are deserving of unlimited praise. A new era in our football history has begun, an era when...
...interest and the confidence that we have in the eleven and assures them that they are backed up by the whole University. We can have no lack of confidence in the team, we know that it goes determined to win, and whether our prospects point for victory or defeat, we must at least send them off with full assurance of our reliance and trust in them. The whole University, therefore, should turn out in full force this afternoon to cheer the team and give them a good send...
...know definitely from time to time how much improvement it has made. It is sufficient to say that those who have watched and worked with the eleven have seen this improvement and that it gives a very different aspect to our prospects. We cannot foretell victory or defeat; but we can say that a better eleven, in its individual and in its team work, has seldom before represented Harvard at a Yale game; and we can with reason expect a satisfactory result tomorrow...
...Harvard has one of the strongest elevens in its history. This does not necessarily mean that victory is certain; it does mean, however, that our chances are good; that our eleven will play as it has never played before. It will either win a glorious victory, or suffer honorable defeat...