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Crew, perhaps, offers the best illustration for these figures. Of the five men in College who have been awarded an emblem in this sport, everyone hails from Massachusetts. Track, on the other hand, is the most representative of the major sports, since two out of five, or 40 percent of its letter men, come from outside this state. In baseball, three out of nine "H" men, 33 percent, are not from Massachusetts. In football, the percentage is 30, and in hockey...
...military service, the clubhouse is still open, and they would be delighted to welcome as honorary members any rowing members of your University temporarily in this country, and freely offer them the use of boats and gear if they can snatch a few hours to enjoy their old sport. I should be glad, Mr. President, if you would, in the way most convenient to yourself, give this invitation the widest publicity amongst your rowing fraternity, and trust it may result in our making the acquaintance of many of our cousin 'wet bobs...
...offer the sole chance for variation of the round of drill. Saturday afternoon is generally necessary for the completion of such necessary transactions as may arise during the week. There are men who have rowed for two or three years, and to whom pulling an oar means the greatest sport in life, who are now barred from enjoyment of their recreation. There are tennis players and other men with a hobby in sports who have not here opportunity in their one holiday of the week for clean and healthy...
...game of war has started on Soldiers Field for fair. The work of drill, squads-right and platoons-left-front-into-line-double-time-march has taken second place to the more exacting sport of rushing imaginary trenches under an imaginary "hail of death" (as the war correspondents always describe it). The cinder-heaps are hills, the grass is forests, the fence is a wall of China, and the whole land is "terrain." A man may be a squad, a squad a company, and a company a regiment. In such Lilliputian measure do we play at war, seeing how armies...
...from the Yale game alone netted $45,000, as compared with $34,000 in the previous year, while the figures for the game with the University showed a gain of $2,000. The expenses in football remained the same, which was not the experience of the University in this sport, inasmuch as football expenditure here showed an increase of nearly $2,000 over last season...