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...considerable material to work on, and a good deal of interest. The prospect of holding the college championship another year is not at all gloomy. Should foot-ball be restored, and there now seems to be some prospect that it will, new interest will be added to the sports of the fall term, and one of the most interesting games that ever excite college audiences will again appear in Cambridge. In this sport the outlook would not, however, be particularly bright. What material there is now in college from which to form an eleven is the remnant...
...several appliances, and the best course to pursue in developing all the muscles of the body. Next term compulsory exercise will be enforced upon all undergraduates, but at present it is optional with them. The opening of the new building has awakened great enthusiasm in all branches of sport. All the foot-ball men and many others have begun active training for the boat crews. There are nearly fifty candidates in all. Ellis Ward is already at work as coach and trainer, and appearances at present point to an unusually strong crew for Pennsylvania next year. - Yale News...
...victories on the Thames last spring are having due effect in the greatly increased interest in rowing. No other branch of athletics reaches so many men, - between 60 and 70 men are now rowing regularly every day, - and no other one athletic sport is doing as much good in improving the general physical average among our college men. But in spite of all this, the University Boat Club is several thousand dollars in debt, with no apparent prospect of diminishing this debt during the present year. There will be a general canvass of the college during the next few weeks...
Yale's play was almost entirely negative, wasting time, interfering with the ball, every rusher seizing and holding a man, all with the one purpose of meeting our splendid system of offensive play. They played a dogged, sullen, grovelling game, not for the sake of the sport, but solely to win. The discipline was perfect. There was little offensive play...
...give foot-ball the requisite degree of life, and place it on a firm footing as a regular ball sport, it is necessary that more of the larger colleges should practice and play the game as it ought to be played...