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...promises quite as good an exhibition of hockey as any game played this year in the Arena. To be sure Harvard is superficially the superior owing to its remarkable showing against McGill and Princeton. Yet any one who has ever seen a contest between Harvard and Yale in any sport realizes that the game will be hardfought and brilliant, and that neither side can go into the contest with any overconfidence...
...University wrestling team will hold a dual meet with Yale at New Haven on Monday evening, February 19. This occasion will inaugurate wrestling as a regular winter sport at Harvard. Although the Athletic Committee will only sanction one dual meet this year, it is hoped hereafter to compete with other colleges and to enter men from the University in the individual championships of the Intercollegiate Wrestling Association...
...contest on Saturday were not disappointed in the showing of Captain Huntington's team. Against what was said to be the best amateur hockey combination in America Harvard played a hard, fast clean game which gradually wore down the more experienced Canadian players. To beat McGill at its own sport is especially gratifying after the two defeats of past years. The CRIMSON congratulates the seven on its well-earned victory and looks forward eagerly to the seventeenth, when Yale comes to the Arena. Defeated by Princeton, the New Haven team will exert its utmost to win from Harvard...
...struggle for victory, it is nevertheless one of most friendly rivalry which must have its effect in producing a close and happy connection between the two great universities concerned. Athletic contests between the large American and Canadian universities are perhaps all too rare. Indeed hockey is the only major sport in which meetings have yet been possible, for the American football rules differ largely from ours, and their track season is not autumn, but spring. Hockey contests are therefore watched with unusual interest by graduates and students...
Already steps have been taken in the right direction. We know of a recent instance where a major sport captain permanently scratched several promising athletes from his preliminary list on account of their being on probation. The result was as anticipated. Each of these men played in the game against Yale. They readily realized the truism that no man is absolutely necessary to any team. Proofs of this statement are within the recollection of almost everyone. But this policy of at once dropping from the squad men who are on probation and neglecting them until their standing is restored, should...