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...discussed at the banquet of the Harvard Aeronautical Society in the Trophy Room of the Union this evening at 6 o'clock. The society has received a number of communications from Aeronautical Societies throughout the country urging it to take the initial steps towards establishing aeronautics as a recognized sport, and the feasibility of the suggestions offered will be considered...
...these years terminates the monopoly of Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale in football interest, for a number of colleges in this period sent their first teams afield. Among these early aristocrats of the sport are Brown, Dartmouth, Lawrenceville, Lafayette, Lehigh, Swarthmore, Wesleyan, and Williams. An important feature of the sport which made its advent in the early '80's was signals. Originally these were words and sentences, later single numbers, and finally the complex signal systems that have prevailed for 30 years. A strange occurrence in this time was that Harvard's Faculty unexpectedly abolished football...
...necessity for reformation of the football rules has regularly arisen during the annals of the sport at intervals of approximately ten years. In 1906 the public forced a revision of the rules to eliminate the more unsavory elements. Out of this strife came an enlarged Rules Committee, an altered code, and an improved game. With the abolition of mass formation, the forward pass came into prominence, and a large number of minor improvements were added to the code...
...present there are in College 44 men altogether who are entitled to wear a major sport "H." Of this number 17 are for baseball, 11 for hockey, 8 for track, and 5 for football and 6 for crew. There are no men in College at the present time who hold a special major "H" for either tennis or golf...
...following list contains the names of the captains of the Harvard and Yale football teams since the introduction of the sport in the two colleges...