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...encourage the sport a large number of prizes will be given and the handicaps will be liberal. The route will be partly a new one, starting at the Gymnasium, through Garden street, left Mason street, right Brattle street, right Lake View Ave. to Concord Ave., up this road to Belmont; through Pleasant street to Arlington, down North Ave., home. This will make the total distance just ten miles...
Eighteen men met last night to consider the advisability of forming a lacrosse club. H. A. Leighton Gr., was elected chairman, and several old lacrosse players spoke of the value and pleasure of lacrosse as a sport and as a form of exercise. It was thought best not to start out by forming a team, but by practicing every day, either outdoors or in the gymnasium, to draw out all interested in lacrosse, and later to form a permanent organization...
...number of changes in the football rules this season, which tend to change the game in several directions. The new rules have been framed with the idea of bringing about a more open game and eliminating those features which were thought to be a detriment to the sport...
...believe that cheering at a game-robust and enthusiastic-is the proper thing. It makes the most conspicuous difference between college and professional games; it shows that there is loyalty to an institution as well as interest in a sport. And there is no reason why cheering for the home team should not be so conducted as to be entirely consistent with all courtesy to visiting teams. Applause is fitted for good plays, and should be given, no matter by whom the good play is made; but cheering is by its nature adapted for the support of only one team...
When the crew leave for New London today, the members of the University will have an opportunity to show appreciation for the work which these men have done. It seems oftentimes as if athletic attention in the University was focused upon other forms of sport, and that the crew was left without notice. Yet this is owing simply to the nature of the crew's work. It is done out of the public view and there is no chance for public expression of support...