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...difficult to realize perfectly how much wholesome restraint such an athletic sport exerts over new men at college, coming at the time when they are weakest. The need of good exercise is the cause of much of the danger of a university life. What could be a better preparation for morality and health and success than the hour's exercise on Jarvis and the hot and cold shower and rub down that follow? Three months of it can easily add twenty pounds to a man's physique, and 10 per cent. to his examination marks, and 50 percent...
...shins, broken heads, torn coats, and lost hats are among the minor accidents of this fearful contest." The eyewitness of this game goes on to say, "the crowd is encouraged by respectable persons attached to each party, who take a surprising interest in the result of the day's sport...
...Committee has considered that freshman games are necessary to arouse a proper interest in athletics in each succeeding class. They have therefore allowed them to continue, but have regulated them in two ways. First, all arrangements made by freshman teams must be approved by the 'varsity management of the sport. Secondly, freshmen are defined as first year men in the academic and scientific departments, regular or specials. Our freshmen teams have been run on these principles for three years. Thus the Athletic Committee has deferred to the Overseers, while consulting the interests of athletics at the same time. The Graduate...
...yesterday afternoon. Nineteen men, with G. L. Batchelder '92 as master of hounds, strted out following the trail laid by G. Lowell '92 and D. W. Fenton '95, the hares, who were given seven minutes start of the hounds. The weather was perfect for this kind of sport and a sharp pace was set by the runners...
...Foot ball Record for November," in the back of Outing, on the pernicious development of interference. His ruling is perfectly clear. "The use of the body and shoulder is legitimate, the use of hand or arm is not, and if they are used the balance of the sport is disturbed, because the tackling is rendered so ineffective as to be well nigh useless in the case of individuals, and the advances can only be checked by massing players at the point of attack. It is the open play that should be encouraged and not the mass work. The massing...