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There is a great deal of work to be done this year before we can win the championship, and the college must do its share by turning out to applaud the men in their practice. The brunt of the work, however, has to be done by the team, and done faithfully. They must not allow themselves to be satisfied with the applause of the college, that is meant to encourage them to greater exertions. They should aim at perfection only, and should be far from satisfied with a game like Saturday's. They certainly played brilliantly then, and made...
...more benefit to the football interest at Harvard than one could be led to suppose. They did more than to merely amuse the men who made up the contesting elevens, and the score or so of their friends who strolled out to the field to witness the sport, applaud the good plays, and, perhaps, laugh at the many ludicrous incidents which are sure to occur in a scrub game. As a direct result of these impromptu games many men were led to go upon the field as candidates for our eleven of this fall, and many promising players have been...
...Brown freshmen who accompanied their nine up to Cambridge Thursday, found little chance to applaud their play in the game...
...blocks corrupt legislation as at Albany, or makes a ringing crusade as The "Nation" and is generously rewarded with the praise of all collegians. The worst of it all is so many men who could take an honorable place in politics or in diplomatic circles are content to applaud rather than prove to their almamater an honor as well as ornament...
...until, in their desperation, they retaliate and finally learn to play the game which meets the condemnation of every one except a few "Yale supporters," who follow the team about, forced by the public opinion of their college to wave the blue handkerchiefs, sport the blazing society pins, and applaud the "thug like" playing which is greeted by everybody else with disapprobation and hisses...