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...first place there was no more "squabbling" over the details of the race of last summer than was necessary for a satisfactory arrangement. The only dispute of importance - that of starting the boats - was settled at once by the decision of the referee. As far as the talk about "eel-grass and lunatic coxswains" is concerned, it is no more than will naturally arise in the case of a beaten crew who, no doubt, honestly believed themselves superior to the victors. Although the talk at Harvard over the preceding race was in marked contrast to the excuses made by Yale...
...guilty of foul tackling. In several cases Yale men were seen to deliberately strike Harvard men, and the latter had not been the heavier team a repetition of the University game would have been witnessed. For Yale Harding excelled, being a beautiful dodger and lithe and slippery as an eel. Peters and Goodlett tackled and rushed well. Young made several good rushes. As the season is very late, the championship will remain a draw, and no other game played. Harvard virtually won the game, having made less safety touchdowns. The rules of next year will probably give more weight...
...undoubtedly are, inclined to be more gentlemanly than Yale men, but in a sport like rowing, where ungentlemanly conduct cannot win as it can in foot-ball, we should choose the more effiicent adversary. However much Yale may strive to make herself disagreeable by her infantile cries of eel grass, such claims, which, even if allowed, only show a want of management and judgment on her part, can only result in making her, as it did last June, the laughing stock of the college and sporting world...
...punster asks : Could Socrates the girls? Could Bartholomew? Could Shakespeare an eel? Could Shylock a bank safe? Could Cataline his trouserloons? Could Americus? Could Livingstone...