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...Main Line eleven was the only team that prevented the completion of the schedule before hard weather set in. Soccer is a fine game, a good game in itself and valuable in the influence it exerts in bringing into athletic competition boys who would otherwise have no intercollegiate sport medium. The writer confesses to a lack of knowledge concerning the finer points of the game, but a Philadelphian--the home of soccer--has thus set down his impressions of the various teams of the Intercollegiate League; Pennsylvania he says, was the most adept, showing a greater knowledge of the game...
...teams will be run again this year. The class is intended primarily to give an opportunity for exercise and development to men who are not out for any one organized team. It therefore aims to give general physical training rather than proficiency in any particular branch of sport. Though there is no expense attached to membership in the class, the very best of coaching is afforded the members...
...various modifications, changes, etc., that have practically made the sport another institution have not up to the present time been of sufficient import as to thoroughly impress the players with the high value of observing under all conditions a strict adherence to playing square, fair, straight football...
...year were discussed at a well-attended meeting in the Trophy Room of the Union last evening. Ellery H. Clark '96, assistant graduate treasurer of the H. A. A., spoke on boxing from the Athletic Association's point of view, emphasizing the fact that it is an officially recognized sport at the University, and called attention to the great success of the sport last year when 40 men entered the preliminary bouts...
...Sargent, director of the Hemenway Gymnasium, who spoke next, outlined the history of the sport in Harvard, where Theodore Roosevelt '80 and Robert Bacon '80 made records as amateur pugilists while undergraduates. The interest in the sport aroused by its revival in the University last winter was by no means local, for Cornell, Pennsylvania, California, Leland Stanford, Virginia and Fordham took up boxing last year...