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"As in all colleges athletics play an important part. Soccer is the main sport, closely followed by field hockey, basket-ball, and track. Football is considered an excessive strain to Oriental tempers. The mildness of the climate makes it possible for sports to be enjoyed all winter. Most of the...
The records show, however, that the University of Pennsylvania, which did not take up football until 1878, has played the greatest number of games. The Quakers have engaged in 423 contests since that date. Of these 303 have been won, 104 lost, and 16 tied. Yale is second, having played...
C. E. Parker, football critic of the Boston Post; makes an annual practice at this season of the year of forecasting the line-up of the University, Princeton, Yale, Cornell and Dartmouth elevens for the ensuing season. His prognostication of the personnel of the 1916 University eleven is of unusual...
The playing of both elevens was ragged in the preliminary games, but the experience gained then and practice since has undoubtedly improved their teamwork.
The interclass football series will begin Wednesday afternoon on Soldiers Field at 2.30 o'clock. E. W. Mahan '16 has appointed the following men captains and managers of their respective elevens: