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...this point and if so the long sought clash between the two may at last be realized. In that event football would come into its own: sport devotees would be privileged to witness a real blood and iron world's series, something a little new but something cleaner, more wholesome, and entirely untainted from professionalism or commercialization. It would be a fine boon to the sport world...
...probably because its very physical nature brings out the best in men. Last Saturday the crowds applauded Boynton not only because his playing was spectacular, but because it was also the clean playing of a gentleman. Coach Moran of Centre College boasts that Harvard will never have faced a "cleaner playing team." That is the real football spirit; that is why the game is scarcely tainted with professionalism and the rowdyism that goes with it. This fall there have been crowds in the stadium who were so ignorant as to believe that the gentleman's code applied only...
...opinions of thirty youthful Americans upon the future of this country and the chances for cleaner politics, better government, and closer co-operation socially and industrially...
...settle down, and with a clean slate start anew. The war had taught us lessons in patriotism, co-operation and economy. One of its dearly-bought advantages was to be a national house-cleaning. The old order was dead, and we were going through fire that a newer and cleaner order might arise from its ashes...
Both teams have been defeated during the season, but Harvard has the cleaner record with only one defeat in five games as compared to Yale's loss of two out of four. The Princeton Freshman defeated both the University and Yale yearlings, the former 13-0 and the latter 22-0. In the first game of the season Yale was beaten 17 to 7 by Exeter, and Exeter later lost to the University by a 14-12 score...