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...title can be claimed, will give the University a strong claim on it. The game today gives the University a chance to avenge its defeat in Philadelphia; also it is the last contest before the first Yale game. For these reasons it is an important contest and merits the keenest interest and strongest support...
Capper was handicapped this year in having to face in his races the keenest competition of years, but nevertheless he always finished well up despite his comparative lack of experience. He has run better with each succeeding race, and with the added strength of another year's running should prove a well-nigh invincible...
Better weather for the games could not have been desired, and, as a result, the competition in every event was the keenest that has been seen for years. In no race or field event was the victory one sided. Two records were broken and several others dangerously threatened. Cornell maintained its reputation for sterling distance men by winning the half, mile, and two-mile runs, setting new records in the former and latter races. Caldwell proved to be the "dark horse" in the 880-yard run, beating both Brown of Yale and Meredith of Pennsylvania in 1 minute...
With the unusual number of point winners returning, the competition in all the events cannot but be of the keenest sort. Some idea of the probable results, however, may be gained from a survey of the various events and the men returning in them. Cornell seems to be greatly handicapped, while Pennsylvania, Michigan and Harvard are well fortified...
...year--powerful, aggressive, and versatile--and discontented undergraduate who watched a scoreboard or read a newspaper account know not whereof they speak when they complain of the low score. The Harvard players deserve congratulations for mastering such remarkable opponents. The meagerness of the victory only demonstrates what the keenest critics have said from the beginning; namely, that the team's pathway to the championship has not an advance lining of roses, and that the overwhelming undergraduate assurance, testified to in one way by the enormous odds granted to Princeton supporters, was not justified...