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...second half the play was more spirited on both sides. Pennsylvania's chief fault was the tendency to attempt too many long shots. The University team throughout played the stronger game at the baskets, while Pennsylvania's advantage lay in covering the floor and in breaking away...
...present time the forwards, although heavy men and fast skaters, have developed little team work. Fairly good progress was made until about a week ago when MacLeod was put on probation and forced to leave the squad. The principal fault is their failure to follow back and to aid the defence after losing the puck. The defence, though weak early in the season, has improved greatly and is now fairly satisfactory...
...judgment is that destructive criticism has gone far enough and that if anything more is to be offered either by undergraduates or alumni it should be put forth, not for the sake of finding fault with what has been done, but to point out the means for improvement. I know that a feeling of what might be called indignation prevailed in the College immediately after the Pennsylvania and Yale games and I feel sure that some of it still exists, but to give expression to it would do a great deal of harm especially as it is, in my opinion...
...Harvard graduate truly said in a Boston paper recently: There is no criticism to make of the honesty and conscientiousness of this or any year's coaching--but there is fault in the system, or rather there is a lack of system...
...fault spoken of has been lack of continuity and building for the future as well as for the year, lack of responsibility, lack of breadth, lack of discipline and the failure to bring to the running of a big amateur sport the same systematization and common sense that would have been evident at once in any business in which the same men or body of men were engaged. This fault has not been in any one year. It has been almost annual...