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...Holmes Field was utilized yesterday as a skating rink...
...held in New York, was attended by representatives from Harvard, Trinity of Hartford, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia. A series of intercollegiate matches were arranged, and the next two seasons saw the teams at work. Last season, however, from several causes, there were but three Richmonds in the field, and unless prompt measures are taken during the winter by the friends of the game to keep alive the interest, which has always been a matter of hard work for the graduates of past years to keep up, it would seem that they have had but labor in vain. This...
...bring college cricket before the public, but my knowledge is confined to Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. At Harvard some years ago some energetic cricketers collected subscriptions enough to lay out a little piece of turf, some twenty or thirty yards, in a part of Holmes field, and this is our ground at the present moment. During the past two years several college matches and matches with the neighboring clubs have been played, but the interest in the college seems to have been gradually failing. Last autumn we thought we would see if something could not be done...
...helped. At present there is no chance of securing a better one. We have to play almost all our matches out of Cambridge. A good ground more than anything else is what is needed to make cricket a permanent game at Harvard. Indeed, a well cared for cricket field is an ornament to the grounds of any college...
...game of foot-ball opens a some-what wider field. More men are required, the rules are easily mastered, and the qualifications demanded a more generally possessed. One should be sound and healthy in heart and lungs, and able to stand thumping and bumping for an hour or two with impunity. If to this hardiness be added a fleet foot, strong limbs, quick perception and presence of mind, one has the requisites of a foot-ball player. Of all college games this is the most accessible, and yet for the average and untrained student it is unquestionably the most dangerous...