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...games between these powerful teams and weaker ones, or in games in which the players are physically unfit or the proper medical attention is not given that serious accidents are most likely to happen. In drafting its rules the Committee has to consider not only the big institutions where football is played under the most favorable conditions and where every safeguard in the way of training and the use of substitutes is employed, but also the hundreds of smaller colleges and secondary schools where substitutes are few and trainers' bills must be kept...
Starting the season with material inferior to that its opponents, and hampered by injuries to the regular players, the team has developed steadily and consistently until now it has at least and even chance in the big game. We believe in the determination and ability of the players--every man of them--and it remains only to strengthen their self-reliance and make them feel that the University is behind them. The existence of this attitude cannot be doubted, but whether it is brought home to the team, or not, depends upon the turn-out today for the mass meeting...
This wholsale cutting of lectures on the days of big games is one of the bad features of a football season. More than once in the past it has been used as an argument for the abolition of football and may be so used again. In order that the present satisfactory status of athletics may be preserved without Faculty interference, cutting in connection with football games must be materially reduced...
...would certainly seem that the Athletic Association had been in its business long enough, and knew the geography of the Stadium sufficiently well, to avoid such inconsistencies. We realize that it is a big task, perhaps too big, to handle the tickets for three important games by the application method, but the fact that the method involves extra labor can hardly be accepted as excuse for the careless blunders that have been committed...
Yesterday's trials were most encouraging. All the members of the team showed up to good advantage, and qualified wherever they were expected to. With a warm day today, as predicted, there should be an all-around improvement, and although a definite forecast of a big track meet is practically impossible, a very cheerful view can reasonably be taken of Harvard's prospects...