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...regard to the proposition that polo, which is now sponsored by the Military Science department, be officially recognized as a minor sport, the committee decided to take no action and referred the question to the Student Council for consideration and report at their first meeting early in January...
...also voted to discontinue the gymnasium team as a minor sport for the present, owing to the fact that interest in that activity has been dwindling at the University in recent years...
While there is a great deal to be said on each side in the controversy which has arisen between William T. Tilden and Harold H. Hackett, former champion, there can be nothing but the deepest regret that such a shadow should be cast on one of America's cleanest sports. It has always been thought that this of all games was a true example of sport for sport's sake. This squabble over policies and personalities between two such prominent men is as unfortunate an occurence as has arisen in the history of tennis...
...more interest than their actual ability. Many will remember the impetuosity of McLoughlin, the craftiness of Brooks, and the imperturbability of Washburn long after their style of play is forgotten. It would be well for these ruffled champions to remember this before they go any further towards damaging a sport which has been built up by so many years of line tradition...
...played on a Harvard team, the Yale game was played in "rain, pools of water and mud," and in 1912, the chronicler speaks of a Princeton game played in the "worst sea of mud imaginable," thereby proving conclusively that the expression "sea of mud" was not used by sport writers for the first time two weeks...