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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Yale. But even such a coaching machine as Yale's could not bring about our victory over a college which can put not one eleven into a game, but almost two. If we will win, we must recruit Harvard with winning material by every legitimate means; we must all make it our business to secure the best athletes from preparatory schools, and not sit passive while other colleges bestir themselves; in short we must make a business of our football if we are to compete with Yale...
...graduates are not yet ready to withdraw from outside competition in a perfectly frank and manly way, as we withdrew from competition with Pennsylvania, and yet believe in more general participation in sport, why not adopt some such system as Mr. Derby's, and stand by it and make it succeed? Propose to Yale that a more rational condition of athletics be brought about in the two universities...
...inaugurate recruiting stations in the preparatory schools, although there is no harm in urging upon our friends the advantages of this institution. We believe that Harvard can turn out winning teams with the material which naturally comes to us, provided that football coaching is so systematized that we can make the best of our resources. At present our object is to beat Yale in football, and as long as undergraduates are united upon that point, there is no need for digressions upon hypothetical instances whose accomplishment we cannot yet welcome even if they were practically possible. Let us strive...
...evening at 7.30 o'clock to discuss plans and prospects for the coming season. E. L. Burnham '07, captain of last year's team, George W. Grebenstein, captain of the Dartmouth team last year, and probably C. W. Randall '05, a member of the intercollegiate basketball rules committee, will make short speeches, and Captain I. S. Broun '08 and Manager P. B. Francis '08 will outline in detail the season's work...
...About eight hundred men, mostly with torches and sashes, were in line as the procession moved from the Johnston Gate down Boylston street. In the Stadium several formations were tired, ending finally in a gigantic "H" of torches, covering nearly the whole gridiron. The fireworks, while hardly sufficient to make a good showing in so large a space, added to the beauty of the scene. West of the Stadium the bonfire, a big, substantial one, was started as soon as the fireworks were exhausted. Gathered around the fire, cheers were given for "John," and "Fair Harvard" was sung just before...