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...football men who are not actively engaged in an organized sport are hereafter going to work in the Hemenway Gymnasium on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On the other days of the week they have been asked to report to Coach Farrell of the track team. This action was taken last night at a meeting of football men at the Varsity Club...
...meeting tonight is intended primarily for men who have been actively engaged in football at college or who intend to go out for the sport in the future. The gathering is in accord with the plan of keeping football constantly in the minds of the players during the off season...
Coach Stevens will be the principal speaker. He will define the position which he feels the crew should have in its relation to the University. He hopes to dispel the prevailing impression that crew is a closed sport, destined only for those who are socially prominent. He will strive especially this year to secure the close cooperation of graduates and students with Captain Kelley's crew, and to stimulating rowing as a sport in Cambridge...
Captain S. F. Clark, coach of the University poloists declared last night that the tournament would undoubtedly be held this year even though no definite arrangements have been made. In his opinion college polo has been developed far enough to resist any attempts to destroy it. The sport in colleges is developing young players and furnishing men to compete on teams after they leave college. The U. S. P. A. realizes this, Captain Clark declared and so is anxious to have the intercollegiate tournament made an annual affair and placed on a definite basis. Captain Clark intends to enter...
...letter to Mr. L. E. Stoddard, chairman of the United States Polo Association stated that it would be impossible for the army to hold the tournament again because of the limited facilities at Fort Hamilton. Major General Summerall further said that "if college polo be only a college sport without any military benefits perhaps the United States Polo Association would be better fitted to organize and sponsor such an intercollegiate association than the army." Collegiate polo is well advanced, Major General Summerall thinks, and further military encouragement is not needed...