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...third period both sides tried a number of forward passes, in which the Indians were moderately successful, and the All-Stars inaccurate. However, the greater ability of the latter team in following the ball enabled them to recover several of these. Fish was especially noticeable, being in almost every play and recovering two or three fumbles...
This year above all others demands good music from the undergraduates. The team is the best that has represented, Harvard in years. The singing in its support is far from the best in years. There is an almost shameful inconsistency in trying to encourage a championship team with faltering and spiritless songs. Such, nevertheless, will be the case at New Haven on Saturday if men do not embrace this opportunity for finally mastering both the old and the new songs...
...hard work one of the best teams in years has been developed. Yale also had very few "Y" men back in college, and development has been held up by many injuries. Princeton showed great strength in the Dartmouth game and seems to be superior to Yale in almost every department of the game...
...opportunity for the let-up expected between two championship contests. Playing indifferently in the first half, but rallying in the second in a fashion which could not be denied, Dartmouth again showed the possibilities of a great team. The fumbling is largely explainable, as it has been in almost every game, by the slippery condition of the field. Again every man on the team followed the ball well, and brought out once more one of the greatest assets the team...
Perhaps the chief fault of the Council of last year lay in the fact that it was unwieldy almost to the point of immobility. Practically the twenty busiest men in College cannot all be expected to be free at any one time. Consequently meetings were poorly attended; the members lost interest, and efficiency departed. This experience proves that the Student Council was too large to form an effective working body...