Word: pre-season
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With the "largest squad in the history of the University" the days of football are ushered in. Gloom emanates daily from New Haven on account of the ineligible Sophomores and from Princeton for some other well-known reason. But pre-season gloom from the camps of the enemy is a customary phenomenon to the football world. Coach Roper has a bad habit of fooling most of the people until about November first by predicting chaos for his team, and at Yale championship Freshman teams always dwindle to nothingness in the autumn of their sophomore year. Beyond reporting the extraordinary number...
...this is as it should be. But there is something entirely unprecedented in the 1923 season. It marks the first year in which the "Presidents' Agreement" is actually in force. Despite a somewhat curtailed season the shortening of pre-season practice no longer arouses the fury which greeted the proposal when first broached in the columns of the college newspapers. Unfair though it may be in some of its details, the agreement has admittedly done something to curb the abuses of football, especially in shortening considerably the hitherto excessive period of pre-season practice. If for nothing else...
...agreement has for its purpose the improvement of certain athletic conditions and the establishment of intercollegiate athletics on a more sound and wholesome basis. It includes several changes in the rules regarding pre-season practice, eligibility, coaching systems, and inter sectional games...
...Freshman and University rifle teams will meet this afternoon at the Smith Hall range in their annual match preliminary to the regular season. The match is purely a practice affair, designed to get the Freshman familiar with the range and to furnish a pre-season test for the University shooters...
With the customary pre-season murmurs emanating from New Haven, and Coach Roper at Princeton quoted as gloomily predicting a series of defeats for his team, the University may easily look at its largest football squad in history and be lulled to a false sense of security. But at Soldiers Field there is no underestimating of the season's work. Very little is being said and a great deal being accomplished...