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During the closing years of this decade the zeal to win was as keen as it is today. Unfortunately the ethics of intercollegiate sport were still rudimentary. And so it came to pass that graduates were recalled to play on the teams one, two, and, in one instance, three years after graduation. "Summer baseball" then a novelty made its appearance and there were no rules or precedents to control it. Thus Harvard and Princeton quarreled in 1889 over questions of eligibility of players and ceased to play until 1895. In the latter year as well as in 1896 Harvard...
...Committee and at the time were in attendance upon the sessions of the committee. Mr. Haughton said, "Harvard and Princeton were pioneers in establishing intercollegiate football. They also should be leaders in its chivalry. Harvard against Princeton is a football classic. No event could be more wholesome for the sport than the resumption of relations by these two pioneers upon the gridiron." Within the hour William W. Roper and the late Captain Howard H. Henry, of Princeton, were engaged with Mr. Haughton on the details of a schedule and the Harvard-Princeton series again was a fixture.WOODROW WILSON, PRINCETON...
...before November 17 Freshmen will be required to report at Wadsworth House to indicate their choice of a winter sport. On this date all Fall athletics for Freshmen will be discontinued. This is the substance of an announcement made yesterday by the Department of Physical Education...
...Thomas Lipton] challenge again?" Last week, this question was answered. Arriving in the U. S., Sir Thomas said that he would challenge. True, certain formalities must be executed first. Even now international yachtsmen are holding in London a congress (as grave as only a congress that deals with sport can be) to determine whether the next race will be "in sloops* or schooners?." "When they settle that," said Sir Thomas, "I will challenge, allowing adequate time for the ten months' notice required by international rules. I expect that the next race will be sailed...
Died. Percy D. Haughton, 49, famed football coach, of acute indigestion; in Manhattan (see SPORT...