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...interest shown in the hare and hounds runs this fall gives evidence of the high appreciation which is placed on that sport by the students here. It is a pity that the weather is now becoming so cold that many of those who have run with the hounds so far this year are by degrees dropping out from the list without any fresh recruits taking their places. In all probability there will only be two or three more hunts this season, and an athletic sport which had such a good beginning ought certainly to have a good ending...
...results of the foot-ball game of Saturday between Harvard and Princeton teams ought to settle the question of colleges sanctioning the sport longer. Foot-ball as a college sport ought...
Yale has never been noted for the success of her tug-of-war team, although there is no scarcity of good material in college. Last season the meeting with Columbia at the armory did much to awaken an interest in that sport here, and the team which represented Yale last Spring was the best she ever sent out. This fall a series of pulls between six teams representing the entire university, have been arranged, each team to pull three times with every other team, and the final pull to be a feature of the winter games. It is hoped...
...spite of their objectionable tendencies, the beneficial effects of athletic sports upon the development of the physique are evident. The nature of this development is governed by the constitutional bias of the individual, the sport in which he is engaged and the time devoted to it. There is, however, a general development which distinguishes the athletic from the nonathle ic class. Knowing as we do, the influence of physical activity upon the development of the individual, it is fair to presume that a like influence will be exerted on the development of a class...
...athletic sports, foot-ball is the best game to test a man physically. In the pushing and hauling, its jostling, trampling struggle for supremacy, few muscles of the body are inactive. In spite of the accidents attending this game, as at present played, no sport affords better opportunity for vigorous training. Though rowing contributes largely to the development of the back and legs, and slightly to the arms and chest, to the gymnasium and foot-ball training we must attribute much of the superb muscular development of rowing...