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...speakers will be Kimball Prince '24 and Coach Wachter, who will outline the plans for the coming season. Coach Wachter has also asked Haven Parker 3L to speak. The latter was the first manager after the organization of basketball as a regular minor sport three years...
...silk stocking; surely rain can do as much for oilcloth. The next football season should find the well-dressed man discarding his coonskin coat and Oxford brogues for the yellow oilskin and rubber boots hitherto sacred to the fishing boats of Gloucester; and in order to preserve the sport writer's usual "touch of color", Paquin and Joseph may even be driven to turning out their vivid designs in fabric guaranteed to save the permanent wave...
...more valuable as their opposition is more real. On Saturday afternoon, in civilian clothes, they sit on the sidelines twisting their felt hats out of shape in their anxiety and inability to help. These men under Coach Knox give the lie to the charge that there is no sport in college athletics: they exemplify, more nearly than it is often reached, a disinterested love of the sport for its own sake...
...Harvard Athletic Association has decided to create a Freshman fencing team and to stimulate the sport among first year men by offering five members This action was taken largely because of the interest shown in the sport this fall by Freshmen who reported to the number of 4b, an increase of 4b over the number of yearlings who came out last year. Matches with the '27, chessmen of M. I. T. and Yale are now being arranged and Andover may be included in the schedule...
Whatever the sport "experts" may say the fact remains that the Harvard team, which "found itself about the middle of the second half of the Princeton game", is at the crest of its development. It has tasted both defeat and victory, and it likes victory better. It has been hailed as a possible mystery team, an eleven that may uncover deep laid schemes and unexpected manoeuvres-all this, perhaps, because the reporters must fill from four to eight columns no matter how little they know. But to the undergraduate and to the graduate who has watched the team develop there...