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Eighteen University students returned from Bermuda last week convinced that the Bermuda Rugby Week Committee had given them a neat-perfect week's vacation. The only regret expressed by the rugby team, other than having to return to classes, was that Harvard had been unable to put up a better showing for the Bermudians, as far as "games won" were concerned...
Where Harvard's difficulty lay might seem hard to diagnose after a first quick-look at the scores. The Crimson lost all four games, under varying circumstances, by 9 to 3 against the Bermuda Athletic Association, by 14 to 8 and 13 to 0 at the hands of Princeton and Yale, and finally last Sunday they went down before another B.A.A. team by 13 to 0 again...
Harvard looked good in their first game. The Crimson forwards pushed the B.A.A. scrum all over the muddy field, but despite the fact that the American term was consistently gaining possession of the ball in the scrummages, Bermuda took advantage of the breaks, and perhaps won by their better knowledge of the game alone. Most of the Harvard players felt afterward that they might easily have won, and they looked forward in great anticipation to walloping Princeton two days hence...
...second half of Sunday's bill was the playoff between Princeton and Yale for the intercollegiate cup, offered by the Bermuda Trade Development Board. Yale was the favorite, and most of the Harvard team who stayed around to watch the second game, were gratified to see the Bulldog take an unexpected pounding. Princeton fought for every minute, and her little scrum-half, John Cotter from Chile, put in the best performance of any of the visiting college players. Although Yale rallied considerably in the second half, Princeton finally conquered by 6 to 4 to win the championship...
...means was all of the week devoted to rugby. A series of parties and invitations kept all three teams players occupied. Bermuda was practically covered with visiting college girls, and with the exception of a few visiting tennis players, the rugby teams were almost solo contenders on a field where they were greatly outnumbered by the women. Although Yale and Princeton might have claimed the initial advantage by being quartered in Hamilton's Bermudiana Hotel, right in the midst of the visiting girls' college groups, Harvard players are convinced that their quarters at Prospect were superior, and several post-Yale...