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...undergraduates are capable, were thoroughly threshed out last year. We are unwilling to admit that our football situation must be regulated by the extremes which the writer offers. The many advantages of intercollegiate athletics so far outweigh the minor objections which are made to them that we need hardly review the arguments which justify and call for their continuance. Suffice it to say that the interest which intercollegiate contests arouse will never accompany any intra-college sports, no matter how carefully their status is worked out, and, if anyone objects to them on the grounds of too much enthusiasm...
...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 to attain the end which appeals to the great majority, and let any reforms work out gradually, if the need of them is generally felt...
...their possibilities permit. But we are sure that abolition of intercollegiate contests will work greater harm to the cause of general participation in athletics than its advantages would compensate for. At present, let us use all legitimate means to bring success in intercollegiate contests, especially football--where the need is greatest--and at the same time afford every incentive to develop the more limited contests...
With real dash and snap the university eleven tore through the Villa Nova team for a score of 44 to 0. End runs, steady line plunging and superiority in kicking left little need for the use of the forward pass or trick plays. On a field which was literally a sea of mud, Yale was played to a standstill by Washington and Jefferson on November 4, and was compelled to exert every effort to score two touchdowns in the second half, winning out by a score...
...professional speculator is not on the last of those entitled to receive tickets, and we must conclude that a few graduates or undergraduates have sought to make their connection with the University a source of dishonorable profit. The temptation is no doubt greater for some than for others, but need of the proceeds does not justify this sort of ticket speculation...