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...Clipper was a good prophet. Harvard's chances are decidedly good for the championship...
...Clipper thinks that "The chances for Harvard against Princeton and Yale are excellent, especially since the games are to be played on home territory. There is yet need of less dribbling among the rushers, and better catching among the tends and rushers. The tackling and passing are about perfect, and the kicking of the full-backs well nigh faultless...
...Clipper says of last week's hare and hound run: "The meet was on the whole a success, but runs should be held oftener, and thereby develop a branch of athletics in which American amateurs are very weak and deficient when compared with their English cousins...
...hard to comprehend" says the Clipper, speaking of the crowds that always stand outside the fence at Harvard, "why the different athletic associations allow so much money to slip from their hands, which could be expended upon the grounds and for expenses. It would be an easy matter for them to combine, and if Jarvis field cannot be fenced in, inclose Holmes field. A covered grand-stand is almost a neccessity, and the benefit to be derived from such a measure, both pecuniarily and in the increased interest that would result, is inestimable. As matters now stand, fully half...
...Delafield promises well for the mile run. '85 distinguished itself in this meeting by receiving only one prize, the second in the half-mile run '86 won six first and two second prizes; '83, four first and one second; '84, three first and four second; '85, one second. - [Clipper...