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...useless. The contest became one in which Harvard relied on her weight entirely, using but a single trick. The disorganization of the Princeton team left her at a great disadvantage and the fight became an up-hill one. Every man on the team deserves credit for coolness and pluck to the very end of the match. As to the decision of the referee, it surpasses in unfairness anything we have ever seen on the foot-ball field. He over stepped the limits of his office when he disqualified a player for unintentional foul tackling.- Princetonian...
room. The game calls for skill and stratagem instead of brutality and unnecessary roughness, for manly pluck and perseverance, instead of tit for-tat kicks and blows. Just here the writer urges the spectator uninformed as to the game not confound running tactics such as 'warding off' with blows. 'Warding off' never hurts the player, warded off, since by the rules the runner is not allowed to strike with closed fists. Professor Johnston remarks that the chief evil of the game is betting and urges the undergraduates 'to put down betting on the purely material side of the game-partly...
...order to offer an additional inducement to all who enter into the runs to put "their best foot forward," cups are given to those who by reason of their superior pluck and endurance manage to come in ahead of their fellows. Now that the college is beginning to swing into its regulated routine of work, it is time for those who have charge of the matter to organize runs for the fall term, and we hope that the freshmen will co-operate with the upper class-men in sustaining a branch of athletics from which so much good is derived...
...management of the H. A. A. as was the meeting a week ago. The feather-weight sparring was extremely interesting, and so was the light-weight contest. But we wish that a little more "science" had been displayed in the latter, while retaining the same amount of vigor and pluck. We believe that while boxing may be pleasant for our lady friends to witness, "slugging," or any approach to it, should vigorously be excluded, and, therefore, we hope that next year some method may be contrived by which none but feather-weight boxing will be permitted on the First Ladies...
...splendid play of the Harvard team in the last five innings, however, encouraged their supporters; their "unflinching pluck" in playing a losing game as they did, being loudly praised. "The fielders all did well," said the Advocate, "the captain worked hard and steadily, and will continue to do so. We firmly believe our nine is not irrevocably beaten...