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...that not nearly so many graduates now enter the ministry as formerly used to be the case. But will that reconcile the undergraduates to having had a gloomy football year? Many Princeton alumni who afterward pounded the cushions of a pulpit learned how to do it partly on the gridiron. What Princeton needs is not more clergymen among her alumni, but more mighty men of valor on her football team...
...over 90% in all his studies won him a Phi Beta Kappa key in his junior year. He was considered Rutgers' best debater. He won his R in four sports (football, baseball, basketball, track). The late Walter Camp called him "the greatest defensive end that ever trod the gridiron...
...mistake of fainting athletics with the same sort of commercialism which grew out of the annual touching remembrance to mothers. But the same methods which have been so beneficial to the maintainance of purity of affection in American home life have still another defect when applied to the gridiron. Telegrams are delivered on paper of a hue the mere mention of which in a locker room is enough to make every shower in the place run cold...
With but one more day of preparation before Harvard's first invasion of a Middle-Western gridiron, the University football squad went through a light but brisk workout yesterday afternoon. There was no contact work whatsoever, as the Crimson coaching staff was taking no chances of running afoul of the injury jinx...
Lured away by the prospect of seeing an epic gridiron struggle and by a desire to find out what the Yale team looks like under fire, Time Out took a journey to New Haven on Saturday. The epic struggle was there alright and Yale with littler Albie Both in the Starring role looked pretty fine under fire; so the trip was a success...