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...whole number of men trying for the team is 68. The work at present is rather irregular and the men are not divided in regular squads as they will be after February 15. After that date the men will be divided according to the events they are working for and the work will be far more systematic than at present. Of course we are to have a tug-of-war team but it is impossible to get one under way until after the examinations. Captain Sturgis called a meeting of candidates the other day but nobody appeared...
...candidates for the team. When a man thinks of entering a race, a jumping match, or a boxing bout, etc., he prepares himself for it by a long course of careful and faithful training. He does not wait until within three or four weeks, and then by a few irregular trials, each to his utmost capacity, attempt to put himself in good form and condition. As a general rule candidates for a tug-of-war team think that they are, as a matter of course, first class tug-of-war men, and in attempting to prove themselves so, they strain...
Fifthly, the request that "since the Harvard Football Association has publicly based its withdrawal from the league upon the charge that Princeton defeated Harvard with a team partly composed of paid and irregular players the Harvard Football Association make a public retraction of the general charges made against the Princeton management...
...extraordinary misapprehension on the part of the officers of the Princeton Association, for which they must alone be held responsible. The Harvard Football Association has not "publicly based its withdrawal from the League upon the charge that Princeton defeated Harvard with a team partly composed of paid and irregular players." It has made no charges whatever against the Princeton Management, whether "general" or special...
...football management have adopted the principle of discouraging personal attacks upon members of our college teams through the press. But since the Harvard Foot Ball Association has publicly based its withdrawal from the league upon the charge that Princeton defeated Harvard with a team partly composed of paid and irregular players, and since the withdrawal on these grounds has been, under misapprehension, approved by members of the Harvard faculty and board of overseers, as stated in the press, we assert that we have evidence in our possession that members of the Harvard eleven were offered pecuniary inducement to enter college...