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...member of the German Faculty of Yale has furnished a translation of an account in a German paper of the Harvard Yale football game at Springfield. It is interesting as showing the ideas of American sports which are presented to the German public. The account comes from the Muenchener Neuste Nachrichten, under the head of "Brutal Sport...
...Many professors at the Universities are openly proclaiming in the newspapers their disgust at this disgraceful sport and protest against allowing its continuance. They are complaining a great deal about the behavior in general of a majority of the students. The study of the sciences has become a side issue...
...team, who, either before or after entering the University, shall have engaged for money in any athletic competition, whether for a stake or money prize, or a share of the entrance fees or admission money; or who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood; or who shall at any time have received for taking part in any athletic sport or contest any pecuniary emolument or gain whatever, with the single exception that he may have received from the college organization, or from any permanent amateur organization of which...
...holding two matches in the spring, the winners of which will be chosen to represent the university in the intercollegiate match next fall. It is also hoped to get a strong couple of tennis players, and to that end competitive contests will be held during the spring in this sport as well. For the cricket team twenty men are at present available and more are expected to present themselves...
...Hasty Pudding Club. His subject was athletics. In connection with football he called attention to the severe opposition now existing generally to football. This he said was so strong that unless something was done to allay it football would have to succumb to some other line of sport. The opposition is mainly on two grounds; first, because of the roughness; and secondly, because of the publicity. The roughness, he said, never could be eliminated merely by the appointment of more officials. There must and would be cultivated in future, at least among Harvard players, a spirit opposed to slugging...