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...class for the book last year, but this feat has been accomplished for the present publication. There will be no space devoted this year to the explanation and pictures of the interdormitory trophies. In place of this, two pages instead of one will be given to each interdormitory sport...
...majority of pictures and write-ups of all Freshman athletics will be practically the same as last year, a picture of the team and the manager, coach, and captain appearing with each separate sport...
...question of bringing this branch of the sport up to at least a level of mediocrity, if not of excellence, presents no inherent difficulty. Natural ability in the jumps and weights is not nearly so important a factor as in the running events. Honest effort on the part of reasonably well-conformed men under the direction of efficient coaching is all that is essential...
...evidently consisted chiefly in studying the wiles of Ulysses. When the CRIMSON nine appeared on Soldiers Field, it found an opposing aggregation consisting chiefly of hired thugs, with a few wise boys interspersed to give the outrageous affair an air of sanctity. Rather than forego an afternoon of quiet sport, the journalists condescended to play a few innings with their nondescript antagonists. But when more thugs appeared on the scene in the fifth inning, the game was protested. The protest was carried to the highest authority, the manager of the CRIMSON team, who allowed it. The game is therefore declared...
...Whoever on Lord's Day keeps open his shop, warehouse, or workhouse, or does any manner of labor, business, or work, except works of charity and necessity, or takes part in any sport, game, play, or public diversion, except a concert or sacred music, or an entertainment given by a religious or charitable society, the proceeds of which, if any, are to be devoted exclusively to a charitable or religious purpose, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $50 for each offence, and the proprietor, manager, or person in charge of each game, sport, play, or public...