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These Spring fancies which the sport writers tender their public are quite without malice or forethought. There is a simple naivete about them which should be commended and not condemned. The sport writer has become temporarily a columnist, a writer of fiction...
Harvard has long contented itself with a legendary mascot to avoid the embarrassment of a physical one. The symbolized figure of John Harvard, which the newspapers have invented to fill this vacancy, exists only on the sport page. He is no more than a paper-and-ink-cartoon...
...success of the Crimson team this year is looked upon by sport followers as very much of a personal triumph for Coach Wachter. The material at the outset was unpromising, and the departure of two of the greatest players Harvard has ever had, Gordon and Rudofsky, left gaping holes in the line...
More than any other man, he was responsible for modifying and modernizing football, making of it the great American game as it is played today. And if football owes its very personality to Walter Camp, many is the minor sport now played in American colleges which in an entirely different way, owes its existence to him. Minor sports do not now, and never have, paid for themselves. In the early days the problem of athletic deficits seemed an insoluble one and wholly irreconcilable with the necessity of maintaining diversified sports. As treasurer of the Financial Union at Yale, Camp worked...
...most famous sons of Yale, Walter Camp will be greatly mourned at New Haven. But so great was his influence as an innovator in college athletics that lovers of sport everywhere will deeply regret his passing. His insistence upon the highest ideals in sport made him university admired and respected, and his own work will remain a monument to him so long as football remains football...