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Moreover, a spirited and desperate struggle in such circumstances will be an immense help to athletics. If Harvard men in the future can feel that at a time when prospects were the darkest, no despondence and no slacking in determination were indulged, it will be a spur that will go far towards securing success. The more times that Harvard acquits herself well in hard places, the more likelihood is there that she will be able to do so again. An athletic spirit, transmitted from class to class, is a very real force...
Wrightingroh made a magnificent spur 8 around the left end for fully twelve yards. Brewer by a run even a bit longer carried the ball to in 50 yard line...
...Yale teams it is pretty safe to say that the smart of the recent goal by Pennsylvania will only serve to intensify the determination of the Yale players to do or die at Springfield. It has always been the case that Yale has played better under a spur of this sort and this has been, perhaps more prominently than anything else, the distinguishing feature between Harvard and Yale teams. Admitting that in the end the fact of Pennsylvania's goal will be a source of profit to Yale, what effect will it have on Harvard? The team has seen Yale...
...before to win. He is a noted specialist in the art at rigging a shell, a point in which most amateur coaches are deficient. If Columbia wins this race her chances with Harvard and Yale will be materially increased, for the the experience of a race and the spur of victory are very great aids...
...victory comes to them, the men may well feel proud of their record; it will be a triumph over odds which will increase the satisf action of winning. If they loose, there will be still another chance to even up the honors and the defeat should be hut a spur to greater effort...