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...foot-ball match between the Naval Academy Team and the Clifton Club of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., was among the sports indulged in at Annapolis, Md., on Thanksgiving Day. The result was in favor of the cadets, the score being...
...revival of class races four years ago greatly intensified an already healthy and lasting interest in rowing. As a result, besides having a series of interesting and closely contested races, we have men continually in readiness to fill vacant places in the University crew, while the class boats take from the University captain much of the trouble of elementary coaching and training, and for a time relieve him of the care of his substitutes...
...effort, but a feeble one, was made this fall by the institution of a series of class games, but the result was more a farce than a benefit, owing to the exceedingly small amount of preparation made. We can see no reason why class nines can not be carried on in the same way as the class crews are, and even with more benefit to the 'Varsity; for ball playing depends more upon practice and skill than upon weight and muscle. Faithful work can do more for a ball player than for an oarsman, the latter depending more upon...
...legitimate foot-ball game until they adopt a code of rules similar to those of the London Foot-ball Association. The existing rules tend to make the college game a mere wrestling match between elevens, instead of individuals, in which weight and muscle have greater influence on the result than strategic skill. This shows faulty construction in the rules of any game. - [Clipper...
...better plan than for Harvard to withdraw alone from the league in the hope that Princeton, Yale and Brown would follow her and thus leave Dartmouth and Amherst in the lurch. We certainly think that a smaller league than the present one is desirable, since it would result in a closer contest for the championship. This, however, in largely a matter of opinion, and we shall be glad to publish the opinion of any one who entertains a different view of the subject...