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...reviewing the past season of foot-ball, nothing stands out so clearly as the immense progress the game has made in popular favor. While men who have been actual players will always enjoy anything that resembles their favorite sport, the large majority of people demand, and have been demanding for years, certain reforms in foot-ball, before installing it finally in their minds as the sport par excellence of the Thanksgiving season...
...stated that an addition to the gymnasium would be begun next spring, but that it would not contain a swimming pool as had been rumored. I wish to put in a plea for the swimming pool. It seems strange that in a great university where every other sport receives attention, swimming, the most useful of all, should be entirely neglected. If then, we are to have an addition to the gymnasium, why not devote at least part of it to that delightful and beneficial recreation? For swimming besides being almost a necessary accomplishment, is one of the very best exercises...
...foot-ball has evidently, with the season just closed, passed its probation as a college sport...
...three years foot-ball has been undergoing a crisis which seriously threatened the game as a college sport. During this period Harvard was forbidden foot ball for a year and Princeton the opportunity to play on any but a college field...
...past season has been one full of discouragement to Princeton. The wearers of the orange and black must not be supposed to have forgotten their favorite sport. The difficulty has been that one resource failed after another so unexpectedly, and so often, that Princeton had to play her big matches before her eleven was ready. The first captain left college, the second was lamed in the first game and lost the whole season's practice with his men, and a third captain was practically in capacitated on his first play in the Harvard game. How numerous and sudden have been...