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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Paris newspapers which is not always a paragon of truth says the students at Harvard are going to take up Association football. May I say something in its favor? It is not a gruelling, prize-fighting game, nor is it one especially adapted for blacksmiths, stevedores or life-guardsmen. Nor is it particularly famous for shouldering, shoving, hauling, kneeing and mass-plays. Nor is it played by men in buckram, so padded and protected that the players' grandmothers cannot look at them without a shudder. But it is football, and the kind where the player punishes the ball...
...promotion of College spirit. If a man could drop into the Union during the evening and be sure of seeing old friends and making new ones, if he could sit with them around a table and smoke and sing, I do not think I exaggerate when I say that the Union Dining Room would be well filled, and, what is more to the point, the membership list of the club would grow at a rapid rate...
...football situation has been so thoroughly discussed not only in the College publications but also in the newspapers outside, that I hesitate to ask you to print anything more on the subject, but I want to say a word or two bearing on your editorial of last Thursday in which you expressed your willingness to publish "such communications as may be useful in improving conditions...
...obtained little but a chaotic result. There are so many football men of worth around Boston, who are eager to be of aid to Harvard football, that the coaching force has simply been swamped with men, and the results to the player and to discipline have been to say the least, unfortunate. We do not want to return to the days of two men coaching by themselves, nor does Harvard want to get along, as some universities do, with a limited coaching staff, but there must be order and system, and the coaching of an individual player, or an individual...
...say--Hooray! Hooray! Hooray...