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This intangible quality of inspiration has a great deal to do with winning athletic contests. Some coaches feel it is best for a team's morale to wear a long face before important contests, particularly in the presence of newspapermen. If someone speaks of a Gildobian atmosphere, it doesn't require any diagram for a normal college student to know that that is a short way of saying "the gloom is thick enough to cut with a knife." And yet, on the opposite end of the scale, it would be doing Farrell an injustice to declare that his optimism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARENS PREDICTS YALE WIN, GIVES HARVARD CHANCE | 5/24/1929 | See Source »

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