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...rush line is all that will save Yale from certain defeat. There are several weak spots in it now, but good coaching ought to remedy these within the next nine days. Most of the men in the rush line are really phenomenal players, but still they cannot play the whole game any more than a crack battery can win a championship for a poor base ball nine. Pratt and Wallace are to be the end rushers. The former was substitute in the '87 crew, and the latter has made a great reputation during the last two seasons by demonstrating that...
...heap in boating matters, should go over to England this coming summer and row the winner in the Oxford-Cambridge race, might, if it was followed up earnestly, result advantageously to college boating in England and the United States. Any half-way attempt as, in case of our defeat, the sending of Yale across the Atlantic to row for this one season without any prospect of a renewal of the contest in after years, whould probably be profitless. But if an agreement between Yale and Harvard could be entered into whereby the winner of the race between them should...
...Only the most earnest and strenuous efforts can this year restore Harvard to the position she so long held at the head of track and field athletics in the colleges. Every man who takes an honest pride in the athletic victory of Harvard and feels any shame at her defeat ought to help on the Mott Haven team to the best of his ability...
...whole secret, perfect organization and nothing else. 1t is not phenomenal strength nor subtle trickery. It is careful attention to details, and until Harvard rowing undergraduates see to it that they place themselyes under the operation of the same thorough working plan and accept business like organization, defeat will come every year...
...hope, with the Executive Committee once more established, that no body of students will ever again invite defeat in two successive years by breaking away from its control or advice...