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Revenge for last year's 20 to 3 defeat at the hands of the Elis is what the Crimson wrestlers will be fighting for, and the odds stand about one to one that they will get it. Since dropping the first meet of the season to Columbia by the margin of a single decision, the team has had a remarkable record, losing only two decisions in the 27 matches of the last four meets...
This intensive spring practice undoubtedly has its reasons if not justifications. Apparently, the defeat by Yale was enough to alarm the sages of Cambridge--and the lack of preseason practice was sorely felt all fall. The report that Yale has been having "spring practice in the winter" is only another proof that the dreaded bogie of over-emphasis was not annihilated once and for all by the "Presidents' Agreement...
...less informal and hardly seriously intended to accomplish great things for the next season, other than to give the coaches some idea of prospective material and to develop morale. But this time, intensive spring practice must balance Yale's mid-winter practice and assist in avenging last year's defeat; it must enable the team to make every game its objective all summer if they like and finally it must take the place of the forbidden fall practice! These are all honorable purposes, but it is ridiculous to believe that spring practice makes the "over-emphasis" any less acute than...
Spring Football practice will be more important this year than ever before. The avenging of last year's defeat by Yale and the newly adopted policy of making every game the objective for the time being are the chief reasons for so much stress being laid on the practice this year...
This record, and the fact that the Crimson men are outweighed by an average of 15 pounds, indicates that every ounce of energy and resourcefulness will be required to avert a second defeat...