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Arrangements have been made for a cheering section at the Yale hockey game next Friday and cheer-leaders have been appointed by Captain Willetts. Q. Reynolds '14 will be the head cheer-leader, assisted by the other major sport captains, W. A. Barron, R. T. P. Storer, and D. J. P. Wingate...
...peculiar to track. We beg, then, to recall the days when the "H" was awarded to the first four-oared crew only in case of victory on the Thames, and the "H.U.B.C." in the event of defeat; and suggest that separate insignia for substitutes be established in each sport--perhaps "H.F." in football, "H.B." in baseball, "H.U.B.C." as formerly in crew, and "H.H.T." in hockey, for since hockey has ascended to a seat among the majors it should be included. The form of insignia is a detail, however; of real importance is a material recognition of some sort...
...Your secretary has asked me to tell you something of the history of football and also the value of the sport as a business training. It is hard to be asked to tell of football in the home of Haughton, Brickley, and Mahan, but harder still before your press experts for whose diagnosis of plays I have a great respect. If I didn't wish them to recognize a play I would not use it before them until perfected and then I would spring it suddenly! As to the value of football in training for life's work the question...
...same spirit of admiration for strength and prowess but in different form. Football has had a hard life. But if you go back you will find baseball was decried as a dangerous game and at one time a college paper said that if the mania for this sport did not cease we should be without able-bodied men! You all know there is a side to college life outside the curriculum proper, eight hours for sleep, eight for study and eight hours left in which to do other things...
...into five squads of ten each to facilitate individual instruction. Two of these squads were in boxing, and one each in fencing, wrestling, and general athletics. The sections will meet three times a week until about the middle of March, and the men will be shifted to a different, sport about every two weeks...