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...While pre-season prognostications are of little value at this early date, the unusually large number of star preparatory-school catchers reporting indicates, that the team will be unusually strong in that department. The dearth of pitchers with impressive records, on the other hand, is a source of worry to the coaches...
Justification can not be maintained, furthermore, on the grounds that Yale needs protection against her football rivals. Dartmouth, Princeton, and Army have dropped this pre-season practice; Harvard has retained it, although Director Bingham and the captain-elect have denounced it. These colleges are Yale's greatest rivals; yet they have dared to place themselves at a disadvantage, if such...
Undoubtedly the most drastic and courageous step so far taken by any college in the United States to correct objectionable features connected with intercollegiate athletics is that just announced by the University of Pennsylvania. After a searching investigation of conditions, it has abolished such things as spring and pre-season football practice, the training table, the use of the training house as a dormitory for athletes, and the giving of scholarship aid for anything but scholastic standing...
...left behind. She languishes, she said, for Schnurri and the other estate animals-Schnurri's summer lay of kittens; horses, police dogs, dachshund, and a little white lamb. Husband von Popper, gallant and taller than Jeritza, escorted her to San Francisco where she is to sing in a pre-season Tannhäuser and Salome. There he was to leave her and return to Vienna until the end of the New York Metropolitan season, which, he remarked, will be the last he will permit...
Squabble. A typical pre-season squabble took place last week, between John Carroll University and Ohio State. Ralph Vince, Carroll Coach, said his halfback, Ted Rosequist, had been lured to Ohio State by one Hal Ells, Ohio State senior, with offers of free tuition, free board, a spare-time job. When asked whether he would "prefer charges" against Ohio State before officials of the Big Ten, Coach Vince replied, "We haven't thought of that yet. We only want to get Rosequist back." Ohio State alumni also heard themselves abused from Heidelberg (Ohio) University for trying to interview Merle...