Word: classe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This afternoon on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock, the Freshman and Sophomore teams play the first game of the class series. Ninety-nine has improved considerably since the Hopkinson game and the Freshmen, with a slightly altered team should play a better game than they have showed thus far. Both teams are light, the Freshmen being a bit the heavier, but what Ninety-nine lacks in weight it makes up in vigor and accuracy of play, so that a close game may be expected. Mr. Jones of the Law School will umpire...
...wretched condition in which the Freshmen eleven is known to be is found in the dismissal from the squad of four candidates for "breaking training." That four candidates for one team, in the strictest training, would have so far betrayed the trust put in them by their class and by the University as to break training openly and repeatedly is almost beyond belief. The offence is unpardonable, and the offenders have been justly punished...
...their punishment should not, and will not, stop with yesterday's dishonorable dismissal. They should be made to feel that their conduct has aroused the deep indignation of the class and has earned for them its thorough distrust. None of them should be allowed to play on another class or 'Varsity athletic team...
...class itself indirectly has a share in the blame. The members of 1900 have not supported and encouraged the team as they ought and made it feel that it represents somebody, has a duty to perform, and is responsible for its success or failure. If the eleven had been watched with interest in its practice and cheered with enthusiasm in its game, its present condition might be more encouraging...
Nineteen hundred has shown itself to be the least enthusiastic class that has entered college for many years and the most blameworthy in the conduct of its athletics. Let the members of the class show, by a large attendance at the first class game this afternoon, that they have a deep interest in their eleven and that they intend to do all in their power to make it successful in the future...