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...Harvard and Dartmouth will probably meet again next season, no agreement has yet been definitely concluded. Major Moore was particularly emphatic in declaring that Harvard had no prolonged agreement to play Dartmouth. He even intimated that Dartmouth might be replaced before long on the Harvard football schedule in the mid-season game by a team from the University of California, Notre Dame, Iowa, or some other college outside New England...
Last year the broken skein of relations was retied. Dartmouth came once more to Cambridge as a big mid-season rival and has come this year as the b. m. s. r. Whether one side or the other wins, or whether both win and lose in a tie matters much at the moment but less and less as time effaces the record. One thing important does remain, however--that two large and significant colleges have rejoined and reopened a valuable relationship. As trade follows the flag, so in this instance it may be hoped that social and intellectual intercourse will...
After suffering a mid-season slump, the Dartmouth nine has developed rapidly, taking a game from Brown and Tufts, and two from Vermont in the last two weeks. The team has come through a difficult schedule of 24 games with only seven defeats and one tie against it. Yale it defeated by the margin of 7 to 3, but it found Princeton too strong, finally succumbing by the score...
...Yale in the first contest of the season, Providence came back with an overwhelming 18 to 1 victory over Clarke University. Holy Cross was too strong, however, but Lowell Tech and Colby both fell by narrow margins. Boston College, Brown, Villanova, and Middlebury all took advantage of a mid-season slump, defeating Providence without any difficulty The team came back later, winning over Lowell Tech and Norwich, and although the last three games have been defeats, the nine has shown a steady improvement...
...reduction of the season to a few uninteresting games with far inferior teams because of the prohibition of all intersectional contests, Major Moore has announced a list attractive to the spectator and of considerable value in proving the strength of the team. Holy Cross is till there in early mid-season and Dartmouth which provided one of this year's "thrillers" comes on the following Saturday. Tufts has replaced Florida and the game with Brown will assume and added interest because of this year's defeat. After all the 1923 season is only one game shorter than that recently concluded...