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...subject of our future in one branch of athletics, we want to say a word of the coming season in another branch, which, at Harvard, receives hardly its due attention. The cricket team starts in work with commendable energy. The men who are now interested in the sport are working hard for success, and their prospects seem bright. What the cricket team needs for success, however, is not harder training, but more men. The numbr of candidates now under Captain Garrett is comparatively small. It needs only an awakened interest in the college at large to swell this number...
Permission is granted by certificate, which specifies the sport and length of permission. The certificate will not be delivered to the person examined until the week of the event, or of the first event of a series, and it will then be delivered only on personal application. It must be deposited immediately in the box of the Committee on Athletics in the entry of the Gymnasium...
...report for 1889-90 President Eliot maintains his attitude of hostility to freshman intercollegiate sports. He says: "The best number of intercollegiate contests is the smallest number which will maintain a keen interest in each sport. A strict application of this principle would exclude intercollegiate matches between freshmen." This is precisely what it would not do. The one reason for organizing freshman teams is that they act as feeders to the university teams. They bring into athletics many men who would feel themselves hopelessly beneath the standard of university teams, but are glad to try for freshman teams. They form...
...athletic sports two important improvements have been made in the selection and management of the "teams." 1. None but bona fide members of the University taking a full year's work, and none but amateurs by the accepted definition, were allowed to represent the University. 2. Freshmen were defined to be first-year students, regular or special of the College or Scientific School. Moreover, improvement has been made in medical supervision of the teams and in the financial management. The probability is that with good management every sport can be made self-supporting except in the case of extraordinary expenses...
...success in 1890. In no way led astray by the thought that a veteran team would easily win, he pursued the same policy of developing not only a strong second eleven, but encouraging in every possible way the production of more material and stimulating a healthy popularity for the sport among all classes. In the early games of the season his team piled up touchdowns and goals upon every team they met with such astonishing ease and rapidity that it might easily have turned the heads of less earnest men. But these men had a hearty respect for the opponents...