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While the cross-country season is in its early stages of development, there are many aspects of the sport worthy of serious consideration by every undergraduate...
...Freshman must take part in some branch of athletics, and if he has not played on any preparatory school teams, he is often at a loss to know what benefit, and also what pleasure, he will derive from the many sports he has to choose from upon entering Harvard. The field of college athletics is on a far broader scale than anything he has seen before, and there are so many new things he must accustom himself to in his new surroundings, that he often makes the serious mistake of "dabbling" first in one sport, then in another, until...
There is no sport that calls for greater determination or more stubborn resolve than cross-country running, or one which, at the same time, builds to a greater extent both of these valuable characteristics during the period of training...
...following table shows the number of Freshmen engaged in each sport as compared with those of last fall...
What arouses our curiosity most is how the idea originated. Some people may consider the gridiron a scene of brutal sport, especially those who know little about it. Such people would probably object to the game no matter what conditions prevailed regarding weight. And even they must have observed that the big men are as liable to injury as the little ones. Coach Heisman's suggestion leaves us bewildered. Just what does it prove...