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There was no dispute over the undergraduate rule. It was not in the rules of the Intercollegiate Football Association at the time the agreement was made between the two universities, and Captain Hinkey acknowledged that Harvard had a right to put any team in the field that conformed to the rules as they then stood...
...well and interfered well, except that they were not severe enough. Corbett showed a slight tendency to run back, and once or twice was a little too quick in leaving his blockers, to run inside. Dunlop played unusually well. He runs well, and interferes well as a rule, though he has not played long enough always to take the right man, when blocking...
...Harvard-Yale game. The conference yesterday was peaceable and harmonious throughout and reflects credit on the good sense of those who had the matter in charge. As everyone expected who was familiar with the articles of agreement between the universities, there was very little discussion about the undergraduate rule. It has been perfectly clear from the beginning of the trouble over the rule that Yale had a perfect right, if she so wished, to limit her teams to undergraduate players, and that Harvard had as good a right to put any team into the field which she liked, so long...
...spite of the bugbear raised that Yale would try to force Harvard to play under the new undergraduate rule regarding eligibility, there has been, I have been assured, no suggestion of the kind between the two managements, and in the existence of the above agreement Capt. Hinkey and Capt. Waters will meet to settle by mutual consent all points not specifically covered. Such a meeting will take place this week, as it must come on or before October...
...this time but 161, as against 185 at the corresponding date last year. This falling off is due to a new regulation by which special students are no longer admitted without examination. As most of the special students were men who were not college graduates, the result of this rule is that the proportion of college graduates is much larger this year than in preceding years. Of the 185 men who entered last year, 60 per cent. were graduates of colleges. This year, out of 161 entries, 128 men, or 79 per cent, are graduates...