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...White, Harvard, '70, and Mr. Walter Camp, Yale, '80, advocate a number of important changes in football rules. Chief among these is a proposition to have the second half of the game start with the teams in the same relative positions as those in which they were at the close of the first half...
...Among the Harvard coaches on the Polo Grounds last Thursday were the following...
...disgraced him. He may be assured that he has put the game of football at Harvard on a firm foundation, and that the result of his efforts will be apparent in years to come. Harvard has now learned how to play the game, as the Yale eleven will be among the first to admit and we should not rest until we have proved our worth by winning the championship...
...adopted the new style. In that year the Harvard team who had had the advantage of two or three years experience, found it an easy task to vanquish the Yale team, weak from lack of experience. I have a faint remembrance now, of the general feeling of mortification among the students because of that crushing defeat, and the determination to retrieve the next season. How apt pupils they were is shown by the fact that since that time Harvard has never defeated the men whom she first taught to play the Rugby game...
...strategy and generalship surprising those unacquainted with the facts. Many a glorious victory for the blue has been planned as carefully and thoroughly as a general plans a campaign. The second reason, somewhat akin to the first, is found in the hearty co-operation of old foot-ball players among the alumni and their willingness to coach the team toward the end of the season, even at some sacrifice of business or professional interests...