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...present below the following extract from an editorial in the Princetonian. It voices the opinions which a great many persons now hold in regard to the importance of the position of referee in a Rugby foot-ball game : "To those who have watched the development of the game in recent years, the inefficiency of the most stringent regulations governing the conduct of the players would have occasioned no surprise. The Harvard game, in New York, was only a practical illustration of the fact that rules will not make a player a gentleman, if he naturally inclines toward ruffianism. The fact...
...correspondents, and we hold the same position this year. Foot-ball with all its roughness can be made a gentlemanly game, and a game that we need not feel ashamed to take our friends to see. Several years ago it was such a game, and as the Princetonian so plainly showed, as it gradually loses its gentlemanly character, it loses its popularity...
...following account of the Yale-Princeton game is taken from the Sportsman, and is interesting as presenting a different version of the reported "slugging match" in which a Princetonian was figured as the aggressor. From what we have heard, the opposite would seem to be the case : "The Yale-Princeton championship game was kicked at the Polo Grounds, Saturday, Nov. 24. About six thousand spectators assembled to witness the game, which was virtually to settle the Inter-University championship. Most of these were college boys, and could be easily distinguished by their badges of blue, black and orange, crimson...
Football and Matthew Arnold vie with each other in the amount of space devoted to them in almost all of our exchanges. The Princetonian devotes most of its energies to foot-ball, with an occasional remark on our distinguished literary visitor, while some of our other exchanges reverse matters and show a literary spirit to predominate over the physical. [Brunonian...
...Princetonian very properly asks, "If Pach is to take the Princeton Senior pictures to Vassar to be voted on, why don't he likewise bring the Vassar Senior pictures here for us to vote...