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Concerning the Yale-Harvard game, the Courant admits that Yale plays a rough game, but maintains that she has a right to dictate in the matter, as "the present science of foot-ball play has been developed almost entirely by Yale;" that "she has never had a player disqualified for illegal acts, but has continually played the game for all it is worth within the limits of the rules," or in other words it is the regular thing for her men to make fouls when anything can be gained by it, until each has had two warnings. - [Phillipian...
...correspondent of the Hartford Courant, whom rumor claims as a student of the annex, thus sermonizes concerning Harvard life...
...FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.]PRINCETON, N. J., Dec. 4, 1882. - It may be interesting to some of your readers to hear something of the sentiment at Princeton concerning Yale's methods of playing foot-ball. The Courant in its last number seems to claim that Yale, instead of having done incalculable injury to the manly sport, has "almost entirely developed" "the present science of play." Such statements certainly rob Princeton as well as Harvard of due praise. Yale has done the game quite as much harm as she boasts she has done it good. She has made it a dangerous...
...changing its opinion. With careful and sensible management and with moderate and definite aims there is every reason why such an association should become a success and a power of great moment in the college world. In spite of the ultra-conservative forebodings of the Crimson and the Courant we think its uses and its outcome need neither be trivial nor doubtful. The HERALD certainly can see in the plan distinct practical advantages for itself, and, as we believe, also for our esteemed contemporaries...
...Yale Courant in an article comparing the American and British game of foot-ball mentions the following as the most striking point of our game...