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Half hearted support is almost as bad as no support at all and many a Harvard team has lost partly because it has had to fight a battle against Yale and part of Harvard. The students here have been altogether too prone to leave the gaining of victories entirely to the teams without feeling that they ought also to have a hand in the matter. Every one of us has heard time and time again of "Yale sand," "Yale pluck" and even "Yale luck"; yet what have these terms meant? Practically nothing but this, that the Yale supporters have...
Both sides were altogether too prone to offside play and holding in the line. Mr. Brooks was obliged to stop play so many times that the interest was greatly dulled. The judgment of the referee was not always the best...
...their practice yesterday was equally disappointing. The college does not, however, in spite of these untoward circumstances, look forward to a defeat from Yale '94. It expects its representatives to play a game of which they may be proud; and a game which will bring victory. The college is prone to this opinion because it believes that the freshmen have enough energy to take a big "brace" in the next three days. If the '94 nine shows that this confidence has been misplaced, it will have succeeded in bringing disgrace upon itself. The college will not endure...
Experience seemed to show that Princeton, perhaps because of her smaller numbers, was more prone to, these objectionable practices than Yale or Harvard. We leave it to you and to the public to judge from the evidence presented in 1 and 2 above whether or not she can justly be thought to have yielded to them this autumn in the constitution of her Football team. She is certainly on record as having opposed the passage of the rules aimed at their suppression, which were proposed in the convention held on Nov. 4. She alone voted against them, and the captain...
...before it is atterly condemned; if, after that trial, it proves inefficient, there will be time enough then to decry it. Young men are far too apt to find fault on the spur of the moment where no material fault lies; and college men most of all, perhaps, are prone to demand more than is their due. It certainly will not be amiss if the present system be allowed a little more time in which to show its good points as well as its bad ones...