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...with a feeling of great satisfaction with those of us who have ever contended that the sport of football was one which bred real men, that we find in this time of emergency of the country our gridiron heroes, practically en masse, have gone to the colors. Last year's Yale and Harvard teams which played at the Yale Bowl before some 80,000 spectators, are now divided in the service as follows...
...Lampy will mann the opposite side of the rink, but no opposition is expected, as both teams are up to their usual standards. Hockey at Cambridge has not been as popular as in former years, and this exhibition game is for the special purpose of reviving interest in the sport. The Arena capacity has been found insufficient, and the H. A. A. has kindly given up the Stadium for this cause...
There are signs that the so-called, but not always proven, "Big Three" among the athletic colleges, Princeton, Yale and Harvard, are about to come back into the fold of genuine sport competitions in various forms this year. Princeton has already announced its change, and Harvard seems about to do so at an early date. Yale will have to follow...
Princeton's decision to permit her students to engage in intercollegiate athletics--sport of the sort was dropped at Princeton when we entered the war--has excited both adverse criticism and applause. As the writer understands it, Princeton has no idea of a restoration of the former spectacular displays as staged at the Yale Bowl, at Cambridge, and at Princeton, but, on the contrary, a sane and economical indulgence in games against teams of other colleges. There are now some seven hundred upper classmen in Princeton who, under conditions that have obtained for nearly a year, have been debarred from...
Moreover, a University shell is essential as an example to the Freshmen candidates, for the latter, unless they feel that the upperclassmen are behind them, cannot be expected to go into the sport with the usual energy. The football team has shown that informal athletics can flourish; it is now absolutely imperative that rowing live up to its gridiron predecessor...