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Several men may be sitting in a room, blue with smoke. With feet on the table they often sit late into the night--just talking. Such talks start with gossip and either degenerate into questionable stories or develop into serious discussions of real problems. It is out of the latter sort of discussion that the greatest and inmost spirit of the American university life breathes...
...University team was very successful. They defeated Prospect Union in the opening game 2 to 3. The striking feature of this game was the clever stopping of many hard shots at the goal. The team did not have a very good attack, nor have they been able to develop one that could be relied upon at any time during the season. Both other preliminary games were won also. Andover was defeated 2 to 0 and Springfield...
...brightest hopes, was appropriately christened with a Harvard victory. On Saturday, Harvard a second time faces Yale on the same field. Four successive victories have inspired an unshakable confidence in the ability of the Harvard team to win, and there only remains the danger that this feeling will develop into one of overconfidence, which is the first and longest step on the road to defeat. An overconfident cheering section is the worst enemy of its own team. Harvard is determined to win, but it must be a victory obtained on her own merits and not because of any fancied inferiority...
Harvard had a positive scoring punch, though the team's play on the defensive and, for that matter, on the offensive, was somewhat ragged and unfinished. Princeton lacked the scoring power which she has been promising to develop these many years. A first class defence and a good kicking game have been Princeton's chief assets ever since football was modernized. But to win consistently something more than these assets is required...
...coaches, especially as the season ahead of them was longer than usual and began as early as September 23. The candidates from the 1919 Freshman team, however, were promising, and the coaches immediately saw the possibility of making some of them into University material. They apparently did not develop as well as expected, however, for Casey is the only Sophomore who may be said to hold down a regular position on the team...