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...made us lose the pluckiest game I have ever seen on a football field. It is true that in the last game we were handicapped by the wind, but once over that goal line, we should have won the game, wind or no wind. I do not wish to croak, but when it is such hard work to make a touchdown, I do think that touchdown should be used for all it is worth...
...heard of any change. It seems a peculiar thing that the one goal in last year's Pennsylvania game, the only important goal we have kicked from a touchdown in three years, should have been kicked by a substitute. As I said before, I do not wish to croak, but I am beginning to tire of asking myself, "if our opponents kick their goals, why shouldn...
...true, it is unpleasant, it is ominous even, if you will, but it by no means follows that we are going to be beaten at Springfield. What Harvard men need to remember just at present is that the way to make such a defeat sure is to croak, to be downcast, to fret and worry over reverses - for we call the scores against us reverses. The spirit of all of us must be bright, hopeful; else the influence upon the team will be disastrous; which the recent games are not. Let there be no easy, very easy fault finding with...
...Columbia would leave us by many lengths, etc., etc. Naturally men of this stamp sometimes prophesy correctly, and then the chorus of "I told you sos" with which they greet us is nauseating to the last degree. When they make a mistake, instead of preserving a discreet silence, they croak about the next event in which the college is interested...
...raven's dismal croak...