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...further inter-collegiate match games until substantial changes in the rules had been made. According to the rules then existing, a player could back, throttle, butt, trip up, tackle below the hips. or strike an opponent with closed fist three times before he was sent from the field...
...each of the games we stationed ourselves in different parts of the field and observed and carefully noted what seemed to us the objectionable features of the play...
...argument. In the Harvard-Princeton game, two men were hurt so badly that they had to be replaced by substitutes, and in the Yale-Princeton game at least three men were forced to withdraw. Slighter injuries, causing temporary cessation of hostilities, but not compelling the player to leave the field, were common, and cut and bruised faces, black eyes, and bloody noses were frequently seen...
...recent action of the Athletic Committee in dismissing Col. Bancroft from the position of coach of the crews, I wish to call attention to what seems to me to be strange inconsistency on the part of the Committee. Last year, when the question of having a paid director of field athletic sports was under discussion, the Athletic Committee of the Faculty announced, as I understand the matter, that if only a man like Col. Bancroft could be found to take charge of our field athletics, the faculty would be only too glad to appoint such a man. Thus, a year...
...Field Day at Michigan University, the hammer slipped from the hands of one of the contestants in the hammer throwing, and went into the crowd. Strange to say, no one was hurt...