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...Camp calls the season one of miracles, with a disappointing end, which he believes shows the necessity of four downs to give a sufficient test of superiority. He writes in part as follows: "The football season of 1911 will go down in history as one of miracles. In fact, aside from the sudden transformation of teams from losing teams to victorious teams, and vice versa, even the ball finally began to take part in the extraordinary happenings, and on one day, namely, the day of the Princeton-Dartmouth and Andover-Exeter games, in each of which games the ball performed...
...what bearing the size of the League has on its status is not clear; for whenever even a few students are gathered together for any cause, academic, social, political, athletic or literary, their petitions for the use of College buildings have hitherto been granted. But if numbers is the test of the status of a society as a Harvard organization, then this League has as good if not better claim to the use of the name "Harvard" than most undergraduate organizations...
Then after the Amherst game, a poor test of any team's ability because of the muddy condition of the ground, came the Brown game with its suprising result. Brown because of its victory over Pennsylvania had been greatly overestimated. Consequently when Sprackling was smothered and the Brown team over whelmed, 20 to 6, the pendulum swung too far the other way and Harvard was considerably overestimated Outsiders noticed only the wonderful all-round work of the ends, the stone-wall defence of the line, and the flash of offensive power which scored Harvard's first touchdown; they...
...first game, against Wesleyan on September 27, was of course not a fair test. The team romped through the entire game, rolling up 21 points. There seemed to be a finished, machine-like play by Yale which augured well for so early in the season...
...part of Yale's quarterback-captain and Harvard's quarterback and captain. Howe is a player of remarkable sagacity and skill, and Potter is a man who keeps a cool head and runs his team so as to get the maximum amount of power out of it. The test will be to see whether the latter can stand the physical strain of the game after his injury, and whether the former can stand the mental strain, in spite of the persistent rumors of his poor nervous condition. weighs 165. Camp, the left halfback, is six feet tall, the tallest...