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...might be supposed, the sport calling out the greatest number of men is football, 197 men in all being engaged in that form of athletics. Rowing is second with 153. Tennis is probably third, although no positive statement can be made in this connection...
...When Walter Camp invented the 'All-American' football idea in 1889 and published his first team in a delightful little periodical of that day, The Week's Sport, the idea was both practical and fair. In that primitive time all of the best football players were at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, with Pennsylvania looming large in the offing. Under such circumstances it was possible for a single observer to study all of the material in action against one another. But these favorable conditions have been gone these sixteen years and more. Today there are 300 college and university football teams...
Regular practice will start during the first part of this week. Sam Anderson, ex-world's middleweight champion, will again do the coaching, and will be in the Hemenway Gymnasium for several hours every afternoon to help men who desire to take up the sport...
Fourteen years ago, in the academic year of 1898-1899, Harvard was successful in every major sport against Yale. This year we have made an auspicious beginning toward a repetition of such a clean sweep. The opportunity now remains for the other major teams to follow the example seen in the football and cross-country victories...
...large number of men will find it possible to come out. Three large meets have already been arranged with Yale, Amherst, and Brown, including trips to Providence and New Haven, and it is possible that others may be added to this list. Since swimming, has just become an organized sport, every man who has had any experience should feel it his duty to help make the coming season a success...