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...defeating Swarthmore on Saturday the University lacrosse team won the collegiate championship of the United States, thereby bringing the season to a most successful close. The final game was an exceedingly hard-fought contest, and to win required supreme effort on the part of every member of the University team. To Captain Gustafson the highest praise is due, for although suffering from severe injuries, he played brilliantly throughout the game. That victory came to Harvard was due to concerted action and hard work, and the victorious team receives our heartiest congratulations...
...game Saturday was hard-fought throughout, and especially in the second half. The University attack was strong, as usual, and by good team-play, clever stick-work and brilliant individual playing, kept the ball in Cornell's territory most of the time. Cornell's attack, however, was unable to penetrate Harvard's stubborn defence consistently. The outer-defence, stronger than ever before this season, was so effective that Lincoln at goal had only two stops to make. All men on the University team played excellently, so that to mention one whose individual brilliancy was especially marked would be unfair...
...Harvard athletic season arbitrarily according to the result of the Yale race, game, or meet. But such is undoubtedly the case. Therefore, we must wait until next week before offering unreserved congratulations to the 1912 track team. We can, however, say that the team won a glorious and hard-fought triumph over Dartmouth on Saturday. May the confidence born of that victory, and the now unmistakable feeling that the College is behind the team, combine for form that do-or-die spirit indispensable to a Harvard victory over Yale...
...Freshman soccer team was defeated by a team from the Brookline Gymnasium in a hard-fought game on Soldiers Field last Saturday afternoon. The score was 1 to 0, Brookline making the only goal early in the play. Nichols, at goal, and Tapping, in the forward line, played well for the Freshmen, whose principal difficulty was lack of team-work among the forwards...
...University association football team will play its first game in the intercollegiate series this afternoon, meeting Yale on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock. Although the poor condition of the ground will retard the play to a great extent, an interesting and hard-fought game is expected...