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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Haven, Conn., October 18, 1909.--Practice today at Yale was light, due to the fact that most of the regulars were given a rest. The scrimmage was short, snappy, and featureless except for a forty-yard end run by Robinson for the only touchdown of the day. The first team lined up as follows: l.e., Brooks; l.t., Paul, Spencer; l.g., Brown, Bronson; c., Cooney; r.g., Goebel; r.t., Tomlinson; r.e., Naedel; q.b., Howe; l.h.b., Robinson; r.h.b., Ristler; f.b., Francis...
Last year the club was very successful which was due in a large measure to the interest and encouragement of Professor Baker '87, and the influence of English 47, Professor Baker's course on dramatic technique...
...many cases by an abandonment of the policy of housing the bulk of the students in college dormitories; with the result that college life has shown a marked tendency to disintegrate, both intellectually and socially. To that disintegration the overshadowing interest in athletic games appears to be partly due. I believe strongly in the physical and moral value of athletic sports, and of intercollegiate contests conducted in a spirit of generous rivalry; and I do not believe that their exaggerated prominence at the present day is to be attributed to a conviction on the part of the undergraduates...
Last year the membership fell below the high mark which had been made in 1908. The decrease was due in part to smaller numbers in the College itself, but also to the neglect of those who as undergraduates should have aided by joining. Juniors and Seniors, especially, who need the Union less in that they are more likely to have the use of other clubs, have shown hitherto a disinclination to do their duty in this regard. We would remind them that the Union belongs to them and that it needs their support to insure a successful year...
...errors--it need only be said that the men were caught off bases by a trick which many umpires would have called a balk, and which came as near as possible to being a balk in the estimation of the umpire who allowed it. The errors were due to the necessity of handling slow balls with almost impossible quickness, and are not to be classed with the errors of omission which go to make stupid playing...