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...Sport writers and sport fans of the middle west are agitating an intersectional football game, a battle between the champion of the east and the champion of the west. Not to be boasting of a championship before it is won, it is nevertheless stating truth to say that the agitators are even more explicit and have their heart set on that game being contested between Harvard and Illinois. Apropos of which we rise to remark with a loud voice and urge the agitators to keep...
Harvard may give in on this point and if so the long sought clash between the two may at last be realized. In that event football would come into its own: sport devotees would be privileged to witness a real blood and iron world's series, something a little new but something cleaner, more wholesome, and entirely untainted from professionalism or commercialization. It would be a fine boon to the sport world...
...long absence. Candidates for the five report to Coach Wachter this afternoon. Needless to say the building of a team will be a hard task in a college where basketball tradition itself has died out; but it will be exceedingly, worth while, if Harvard receives the new minor sport with anything like the enthusiasm shown at Yale and Princeton...
Coach Wachter deserves the hearty support of the University in his attempt to put Harvard on such a footing that, beginning modestly, it will be able soon to compete with its great st rivals in a sport too long ignored...
...leader in the forward passing game. The Purple captain gained his accuracy and agility through his work on the basketball court. That is one reason, Coach Wachter said, why he wants football men to go out for basketball, for not only would they aid in that sport, but would improve in their football work. At Princeton, Dickinson, Legendre and Opie, prominent linemen this fall, are first string basketball players...