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Today the freshman lacrosse twelve will try their best to defeat the Yale freshmen at New Haven. The number of men who have tried for the team is considerable and the team selected ought to make a creditable showing. Of course, a game requiring so much skill and headwork as does lacrosse cannot be perfectly learned in one season, but a beginning must be made some time, and the beginning made by '87 is certainly creditable. It is a pity that not all the best men are able to go today, but the result must be that those who have...
...come out and practice is a crying evil, and one that must be reformed if Harvard College wishes to hold the position in sports that she has gained by the exertions of her early members. That men, well built physically, and well endowed mentally (for it requires some headwork), to play a good game of lacrosse, base-ball, or foot-ball, but who have not had any experience. should hang back and decline to try for positions on a team, not out of timidity, for this is a "rare commodity,"but out of pure indifference, is disgraceful. Individual players, whose...