Word: mottes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Tonight the executive committee of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association will meet in New York and settle upon the place at which the Mott Haven games will be held this year. It is very probable that the place will be Berkely Oval. Both Harvard and Yale are opposed to having them again on Manhattan Field...
...present support is indication of the future, the finances of the Mott Haven team are likely to be in a sad state this year. The amount of money which will be at the team's disposal depends very largely on the financial condition of the Athletic Association, and the efforts of this association have so far met with little response from the students...
...seems to us that this is not at all as it should be. In the first place, the Mott Haven team deserves better of the University. It has been the one form of athletic contests in which Harvard has, of late, met Yale with a great degree of success. Success has not come easily: it has been the result of hard thought, hard training, and great effort. Success, moreover, has not been of slight moment: the games are widely recognized as one of the chief tests of athletic superiority among the universities. Appreciation of honest effort and well-won success...
...deplore the present support, not only because it is unjust to the Mott Haven team, but because it is a bad thing for the University. The athletics which are fosterd by the Mott Haven team, and, in a wider way, by the Athletic Association, are productive of more benefit to the students than any other form of athletics, because they are of such a character that a very large number of students can, tentatively at least, take part in them. We are frank to say that, if the heavier and more exciting forms of athletic contest should threaten to kill...
During this week the Mott Haven team will do no work. Mr. Lathrop will thus have his time free and will coach all candidates for events in the winter meetings. During the week the classes in wrestling will meet on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons...