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...intercollegiate baseball games this spring and the almost simultaneous announcement that the leading tennis tournaments will be revived during the approaching season are welcome. The seriousness of our entrance into the world war was nowhere more deeply appreciated than in collegiate and amateur athletics. The leading men on the gridiron and the diamond disappeared from their wonted places to take up the grimmer game for the sake of country. Nine of the ten ranking tennis players of 1916 are enlisted in the service of the nation, and the tenth is indispensably engaged in the manufacture of munitions...
...spite of our inability to tame the Yale Bulldog on the gridiron last fall, we need no longer feel blue. Captain Bigelow and his henchmen from the class of 1921 went out after that same animal shod with steel and armed with hickory and filled with an invincible spirit. After a few minutes of contest, the outcome was clearly evident, but play was continued until the Freshmen had driven seven goals where they belonged, past the Yale guard. Strangely enough, the Elis were unable to connect with a fortunate puck-thrust, and they stood at the poor...
...with a feeling of great satisfaction with those of us who have ever contended that the sport of football was one which bred real men, that we find in this time of emergency of the country our gridiron heroes, practically en masse, have gone to the colors. Last year's Yale and Harvard teams which played at the Yale Bowl before some 80,000 spectators, are now divided in the service as follows...
...Freshmen candidates, for the latter, unless they feel that the upperclassmen are behind them, cannot be expected to go into the sport with the usual energy. The football team has shown that informal athletics can flourish; it is now absolutely imperative that rowing live up to its gridiron predecessor...
...usual University teams are to represent the Crimson and the Blue. We will miss the old stars: Black, Casey and those others who battled in the Bowl last year all are in the Service and the freshmen are the only ones left to represent their colleges on the gridiron. There will be no H formed in the Stadium, no new songs will be sung; it will be a war time game. We, that is, all but the freshmen, do not even know who plays each position on the two teams In former years we could all run through our line...