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...hostility, not generally endemic to the Harvard-Yale rivalry, stems specifically from the quality, or lack thereof, of the Bulldogs' performance this winter. With ten lettermen returning, and a group of fine sophomores from a 17-2 freshman team that beat Harvard twice last year, Yale was understandably optimistic last November. A position among the ECAC's top eight was not entirely unrealistic, nor was a respectable finish in the Ivy League...
...this season, although B.U. ranked as the team to beat with 17 of 20 lettermen back from its 28-2-1 team, Kelly found himself embroiled in controversy once again. The Terriers tied Harvard, 4-4, lost a squeaker to Cornell, 3-2, and collapsed to an unimpressive Clarkson team, 6-2, during the first month of the season...
...Fire. The second-and third-generation inheritors of a faith tend to reduce a passion into a habit. Short on spirit, long on technicality, they are the lettermen. Abruptly jumping 100 years, switching the scene to Pennsylvania, and abandoning historical characters, De Hartog introduces as his letterman a New World Quaker businessman named Isaac Woodhouse. This Early American success figure may have been sober, industrious and honest even with Indians. But, in De Hartog's words, he also showed a positive "genius for compromise." Quaker slaveowners, for instance, intimidated slaves by showing whips without ever actually using them...
After the lettermen come the revivalists. Boniface Baker, the easygoing grandson of a Fox convert and one of De Hartog's compromisers, suddenly catches the old fire again. In his mid-50s, Baker frees his slaves, parcels his indigo plantation among them, and takes off for the frontier. One solid measure of the book is that it makes this radical gesture oddly plausible...
...Quakers, still equipped with nine lettermen and two of the best forwards in the country, have yet to play an Ivy squad. But a crushing victory over Southern California in the opening round of the Kodak Classic, and a narrow one at the expense of St. Bonaventure in the finals indicates that Penn is still the team to beat in the League...