Word: sporting
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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Several athletic men were impressed with the idea that it would make a first rate winter sport. There are a great many days in the winter when the ground is frozen and the air bracing, and these days could be utilized by any who like the sport to go out and play a little. It is by no means necessary to have eleven men on each side. Four or five on each side can play a game and have a great deal of fun out of it. The game is excellent for the wind and develops quickness and steadiness...
...last Princetonian reprints our review of the article in The Week's Sport on Harvard's athletic position and adds the following...
...were surprised to see portions of the above article in the Week's Sport, but did not know whether to attribute it to the Editor, who has always taken an impartial attitude toward Princeton, or to some irresponsible correspondent. We were still more surprised to see it quoted in the CRIMSON and endorsed editorially as reflecting the sentiment of the college. This is all right so far as Harvard's athletic policy is concerned, for every college must shape its own, but is not in keeping with the position of the CRIMSON of Nov. 6th which we took in good...
...strength and weight of the contestants. Strange as it might seem to the younger men, this fact was quite a revelation to some of the older men who had got all their ideas of foot ball from newspapers. He congratulated all Harvard men that they had proven the sport to be worthy of the best efforts of gentlemen. But, he added "one swallow does not make a summer," and he hoped that the hard work and enthusiasm which had won the victory were but an example to urge future generations of students to earn success by the same means...
...article in The Week's Sport, from which we have quoted to such an extent this morning, puts our action in withdrawing form the league in the proper light. The general feeling at Harvard is against all leagues, for we feel that leagues have never been beneficial, but have, on the contrary, been productive for the most part of discord. Leagues serve no purpose other than to provide for the general arrangement of games; these can easily be attended to each year, and considering the amount of underhandedness which leagues foster, Harvard is best off in her independent position...