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...assistant manager of the University team next fall and automatically becomes manager in his Senior year. The second man in the competition is made second assistant manager of the second team. All men who intend to compete should attend this meeting even if they are out for some spring sport, for arrangements will be made to avoid conflicting work...
...West by the Harvard University Football Team of 1919, written by one who followed the team to the Golden Gate not as one of the besieging host, but as the chronicler par excellence, William C. Spargo. The witty style will at once appear familiar to any who read the sporting page of one of the large Boston evening papers and who enjoy the "Speaking of Sport" Column. As the foreword explains, the booklet was written as a readable memento of the seventeen days journey in which the Crimson cohort with its field marshals invaded the unknown region to the west...
...often in past years, as one major sport has followed another in claiming the public eye, the cry has gone forth for support of the teams by undergraduates. That call has become over-familiar and is admittedly unpleasant. The more so on account of its necessity--but it has seldom failed to bring results in the form of increased interest throughout the University...
...Athletic Committee should decide eventually to sanction boxing meets with other colleges, it will do so on second hand information. The question for us is not whether Yale and Princeton men have or have not the qualities needed to foster boxing as a sport, but whether our own material can stand the acid test...
...diagnosis be correct, the Athletic Committee are "on the fence" concerning a sport which England indorses by the attendance of her nobility in evening attire. The committee hesitates about a game which Yale and Princeton are initiating. Why not give boxing a fair trial? College men should be gentlemen as much in a boxing contest as in a gridiron clash. AUSTIN BLAIR...