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...whom it belonged; and, secondly, by this removal of the responsibility the interest in the work and success of the crew was lessened. The committee deprecated the state of affairs last year when they felt as thought they lacked the moral support of the University in their work. The defeat of the crew was the inevitable result of a race between an eight of veterans, rowing a familiar stroke, and a new eight rowing the same stroke for the first time...
...heaviest batsman, Willard; while the majority of the names of Harvard players appear at the bottom of the list. McConkey, the weakest batsman of the Yale team, ranks ahead of six of Harvard's players. This lack of ability to bat may be considered the chief cause of our defeat last June...
Since the defeat of the freshman nine at New Haven the management has been making an effort to arrange another game with the Yale freshmen, hoping in this final test that the nine might retrieve its former misfortune, It declared itself ready to assume all the necessary expense, etc. The Yale men, however, refuse to make arrangements for another game on any considerations whatever...
Those who believe in "signs" are confident that the 'Varsity crew will win this year, as the Halcyon crew of St. Paul's have won, and their victory has always in the past been a forerunner of Yale's defeat on the water...
...Ernest W. W. Coolidge and Sam Winslow, Harvard ex-captains, were present, while ex-captain Bremner of Yale witnessed his nine's defeat from the Yale bench...