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...fifth year. Stag is a new man at foot-ball, but is playing very well. Both tacklers, Gill and Rhodes, have been laid up for three weeks but are now playing again though the latter is still lame. Woodruff, contrary to all expectations, has resumed his old place as right guard. The other guard is Heffelfinger, a powerful freshman. Carbin at center completes the rush line. Wurtemburg, as quarter-back is playing almost as well as the famous Beecher. The half-backs will be Graves and McClung, both are playing remarkably well. Bull still fills his old place of full...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Condition of the Yale Eleven. | 11/17/1888 | See Source »

...opened the meeting by explaining the purpose of the conferences. They are designee to bring the teachers and students closer together, and to give an opportunity to talk over the deeper issues of university life. The great trouble here at Harvard is the lack of "team play" among the right minded. There are many who have the best interests of the University at heart, but their efforts are less successful because they lack union. As time goes on, the tendency to deeper thought acquires greater strength. This is shown by the increase, this year, in the attendance at the services...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Conference Meeting. | 11/15/1888 | See Source »

...that under the foot-ball constitution, Yale and Harvard must play in New York this year, inasmuch as they were respectively first and second in the league last year. It is asserted that if Harvard refuses to play in New York, she breaks the constitution, and therefore forfeits the right to choose the ground. The answer to this is plain. Harvard was forced to break the constitution through no fault of her own. Since she is never to be allowed to play in New York, she must always break the constitution when she is second and Yale first. Consequently Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/15/1888 | See Source »

...thing more. The Yale News, the Yale captain, and the Yale management seem to be of the opinion that "the Harvard faculty, if the facts of the case were laid before them in the right light, would withdraw their objection." Once for all, let us state that the Harvard faculty has nothing to do with the matter; full powers have been given to the athletic committee, and their decision is irrevocable. The game will not be played in New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/15/1888 | See Source »

...tennis court without its professional "marker" in England or any other country, and that in a game distinctly less savoring of "professionalism" than any other sport in the world. Throughout athletics and pastimes trained guides are everywhere deemed necessities for the beginner, from countries across the ocean right to Harvard's doors. Is it peculiar to one college that such influence be bad, and that the college the most refined and antagonistic to vulgarity of any in the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Athletic Decadence. | 11/14/1888 | See Source »