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...Athletic Committee is to be congratulated upon the action which it took last evening with regard to the readjustment of football rules. The necessity of some revision is only too apparent, and we are glad to see the Athletic Committee taking the first step in this matter. It now rests with the Advisory Committee on Football to suggest alterations in the rules capable of correcting the present evils of the game, not only in theory, but in practice...
...reasonable to suppose that, if the Harvard cross-country team had met Yale with an equality of skilled professional coaching, the first six finishers in that race would have been all Yale men? Is it not humiliating that in the meet with Technology, which most of our men entered under the handicap of physical disability, the paid coach of their opponents, after seeing his team to an over-whelming victory, gave, out of the kindness of his heart, counsel as to the well-being of the Harvard team, which he evidently pitied as being sheep without a shepherd...
...formal presentation of the Filley Cups for the inter-dormitory rowing championship was made last night in the Thayer Common Room. Mr. B. A. G. Fuller '00, in making the presentation, said that in donating these cups he was attempting two things: first, to recall the work of O. D. Filley '06, captain of the University crew in 1905 and 1906; and second, to cultivate among undergraduates a fondness for rowing and athletics in general. Captain Filley was the first man to recognize the value of secondary rowing and it was chiefly due to him that inter-dormitory rowing...
...meets the great disadvantage under which a team labors that has been poorly coached or not coached at all when it meets a team coached by an expert like Moakley of Cornell. Except in 1908 when Alfred Schrubb coached, the Harvard team has not had the services of a first-class trainer. Schrubb accomplished wonders in a few weeks with the runners, but his stay was too brief for his work to be of more than temporary effect...
...University association football team will play its first game this fall with Phillips Andover Academy on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock...