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...opening practice for the 1926 eleven will be held this afternoon on Soldiers Field at 3.30 o'clock on the Freshman gridiron...
...suggested by our communicant this morning, is admirable. Any sport with the strong attraction that football has should be enjoyed by as many participants as possible. From the nature of the game few men of light and intermediate weights can safely or profitably play football, yet there are numerous gridiron devotees who tip the beam below the University average. Wrestling, boxing, and rowing are conducted in avoirdupois divisions with beneficial results for light men; why not football...
...ground inside the new running track will be drained and filled to prepare it for use as a gridiron next fall. The plans also call for the building of a line of new tennis courts just on the north of the row of birches which extends along the northern side of the tends along the northern side of the new running track. The exact number of courts to be built has not yet been determined...
...which is well enough, as far as it goes. But in spite of the "intellectualization" of football effected by Haughton, it is not always advisable to restrict our cerebral activity to the gridiron. The Yale Renaissance, or, as it has been put, Yale's Renascence, seems to be developing a new type of Harkness-brod intellectual who in not only interested in literature but is willing to admit it. He refers familiarly to "Bozzy", and has a library of finely bound books with uncut leaves; and he finds it good form to twit Steve Benet's "Wisdom". Nevertheless there...
Present-day psychology puts the ameboid sport in a fair way to become a dangerous rival of the gridiron. Only last year the question over the candidacy of coeds for football managerships and some athletic teams harassed the masculine element at Cornell. Fortunately, the new sport solves the problem, for a girl can throw the horse-shoe as well as any man. Faculties have long complained of the high costs of athletic teams but horse-shoe pitching Pennsylvanians supply their athletic needs at the nearest smithy. So enthusiastically have the students received the sport that Pennsylvania's "Big Quad...