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...experience and qualifications of last year formed a basis for the choice. Substitutes were also chosen and a second eleven formed which had different signals from the 'Varsity and was independent of it. Light practice was early instituted for the purpose of diminishing the liability to injury, with the result that much time was spent in running through signals...
Dean Hodges spoke on the "Fact of Difference." Modern education, he said, was teaching the world to recognize the necessity of the fact of difference, and as a result colleges had provisions for bringing out the best qualities of every man. He considered truth so large that there was bound to be difference in consideration of it; and to his mind the best way of advancing religious co-operation was to bring the truth into the sight and knowledge of as many men as possible. In closing, Dean Hodges urged common allegiance as the essential bond of unity...
...constant changes in the line-up. The Brown game showed Yale's lamentable weakness in defense and also her strength in straight-away offensive football. During the week following the game with Brown the work was confined to strengthening the line and the whole defensive play. The result of this was encouragingly apparent in the Carlisle Indian game. Yale's defense was much stronger but still far from perfect. The week before the West Point contest was used in practicing a method for breaking up mass plays, but the work went for nothing when the team lined up against...
...absurd then to imagine that the result can be foretold, and it is worse than absurd to encourage any general expectation that Harvard will have the game in her hands. Whoever wins that game must fight it out to the bitter end, and any feeling of security is ill founded. Too much confidence tends too spoil the team. It also tends to produce a violent reaction against the method of coaching in case of defeat. Finally it gives outsiders and graduates an exaggerated idea of the team's ability, which calls down upon them perhaps unjust criticism if they...
...mile Adams's boat had opened up two lengths of open water over Perkins's boat which led Goodrich's crew by a length. Higginson's brought up the rear. All were rowing fairly well, although slugging somewhat. The fast running waves broke over the outriggers and as a result the four boats carried a good many extra pounds of water...