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This being so, it behooves all those to whom the name of Harvard is dear to rise in arms against the virus of decadence. In this spirit, therefore, the CRIMSON offers the following suggestions calculated to supplant present degeneracy with a new virility and all conquering mastery on the gridiron...
...Haven, Conn., October 29--Yale's 1926 football schedule, as released by the Yale Athletic Association, shows but one change from this year's gridiron program...
...trip will be made by the 1926 eleven except the one to Princeton, Brown resuming its journey to New Haven, following an all-home schedule in dedicating its new gridiron this year...
...slapdash unprofessional manner by young men who enjoyed the exercise. This race of dilettantes is now extinct, and has given place to a more conscientious generation which realizes the true function of football in any well-conducted alma mater. For alma mater flourishes by victory on the gridiron, and droops after defeat. No alma mater can withstand prolonged unsuccess at football. The reverberations of humiliation in the Stadium or the Bowl are far-reaching. Attendance in classes on Egyptology, Cryptology and the Italian drama drops off. Scholarship standards quiver and collapse. Bright young men in middle western high schools hear...
...dance-floor the Big Green is as far ahead of Harvard as on the gridiron, according to the bellboy, who admitted that he had been impressed by the Terpsichorean demonstration put on by the men from Hanover. "In their dancing it was the same way as with their football. They had punch, pep, and knew what was coming next every minute. On football Harvard was satisfies with straight football, and their dancing was the same way. Out in the Stadium, Dartmouth put on trick plays, and here they went in for the Charleston. Yes sir, they put on a snake...