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...game all the fall, it is the opinion at Yale that she cannot completely change her style of play in time to meet Yale and the Yale 'varsity, drilled by the second team in this same kind of work, should be better able to defeat it. Alexander Brown, the oarsman, and a prominent candidate for tackle, will act as captain of the second eleven...
...position of the American universities in this matter [i. e., as to amateurs] is but little understood in this country. Anybody-a professional runner, oarsman or laborer-can put his name on the books of any university to attend lectures. He is then a member of the university and after a certain time can represent his college colors in any event his is selected for by the athletic trainer or committee of the college. He goes on the free training table of the college and does nothing else but train and practice athletics,- in fact becomes to all intents...
Critics may object, and do object, that athletic prowess is unduly exalted, and that it involves distortion of facts to rate the best football player, or best oarsman, higher than the best scholar or debater. But the critic is not wholly right in this. There is a disposition in the college world to recognize in the highest degree anything which redounds to the credit of the college. Let a student write something which brings honor to his college, whether in science or literature, and there is no limit to the recognition he receives from his fellows. Let a football player...
Before this letter was sent, however, Mr. Alfred Cowles, the old Yale oarsman went to the summer home of Professor Ames at Castine, to confer with him further upon the question. Professor Ames repeated to Mr. Cowles the substance of what he had said to Mr. Adee, and refused to make any overtures to Yale in the matter. He felt that Yale must send an invitation to Harvard to meet her in football, before Harvard could agree to play. He did say, however, that he would do nothing further in the matter until the college year opened and the undergraduates...
...machine which promises to be of much practical benefit to Harvard rowing has recently been invented by Professor Hollis of the Engineering department. The machine registers autographically the amount of energy expended by an oarsman in the various parts of the stroke. The autographic reproduction on paper of the record of a stroke is by clearly defined lines obtained by electricity...