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...upon the theme again; Yale is tired of it. Do not further seek to raise the anger of the New Haven lion. The News believes that its readers wish to hear no more on the subject, you know, and the Courant very properly "had hoped to be able to drop the subject of foot-ball for the season." We do not wonder at Yale's eagerness to "drop the subject of foot-ball for the season...
...advisability of narrowing the college league. The Athenoeum mistakes when it says a trifle savagely and bitterly : "To discover which crowd can beat is the sole object, and if in the course of a few years the contest narrows down to two or three institutions, let all the rest drop cut; they are wholly unnecessary." The real object of the league, on the contrary, we think, is to afford chance for enjoyable sport to the colleges engaged, and to keep alive and stimulate an interest in athletics. If perpetual defeat can be the only lot of the smaller colleges...
...kicked into touch at 2.45 P. M., and the game was started amidst great excitement and enthusiasm among the spectators, who had been waiting for an hour for the fun to begin. For the first twenty minutes the ball was kept upon Princeton's ground, and soon from a drop by Richards sailed over the bar, but the referee decided no goal, owing to bad tackling. Soon after Princeton was forced to make a safety, and for some time the ball hovered about her goal until Twombly made a magnificent run and passed the ball to Buck, who scored...
Princeton's goal was made after a drop kick by Haxall a distance of 115 feet. The press account of the game contains the following...
...most prominent feature, or at least among the most prominent, in the game on Saturday was Princeton's superiority in drop-kicking and dropping on the ball. In rushing and blocking, being a somewhat lighter team, they were behind Harvard; but in these two important points and also in holding the ball. Harvard was obviously inferior to her opponents. We are reliably informed that Yale is also very sure in goal kicking from the field, and that she depends on Harvard's inferiority in this respect as one of her chief sources of confidence for success in Saturday's game...