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...limitation of publication and a cessation of all this "get back at Yale" talk, so prevalent in the papers, could easily be accomplished. I know most of the sport writers well enough to appreciate their goodwill to the game and to the college and that they are willing to serve its best interest. Those who would not comply could be forced into it by excluding them from the press box and the field, which-could easily be done, until they would be brought to agreement by the power of competition. This general line could be followed...
...athlete transferring from another college may compete in a major sport until he shall have passed the entrance examinations of Yale, Princeton, or Harvard as the case...
...basketball team's record of sixteen games won, including two victories over Yale, is significant of this year's minor sport season, which presents a far different aspect from the previous one. In the past things have gone so uniformly badly with the minor sports, that Dean Briggs noted in his report last year one day on which the University suffered five defeats...
...allowance for the fact that basketball in that year had hardly reached more than an informal status, and swimming was fighting a losing battle against over whelming odds in the lack of a pool, there is no question that the present season marks a distinct upward trend in minor sport success. In the season just concluding, besides basketball's impressive record, the squash team was barely nosed out of a tie for the championship of the league and the fencing team is on its way to the intercollegiate title with a good prospect of success. The wrestling team, although severely...
...colleges must take the initiative, their place in the community and their active interest in good sport, make leadership a fundamental obligation...