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Down in the hills of Southern Indiana the student body of Indiana University is eagerly looking forward to its first intersectional football game in several years, the clash with Harvard University on Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon, and the chance to bring the scalp of John Harvard back to Bloomington, where you may be sure it has a large and prominent place in the trophy room awaiting...
...valiantly to snake dance with all the abandon that the occasion required, but the spell had been broken: Their enthusiasm had been self-suppressed in its spontaneous state, in the cause of sports-manlike conduct--not to insult their opponents with a contempt for the victory. A Harvard football scalp is still a cherished prime in Hanover, though not to be valued higher than a tradition of courtesy...
...Yale had outridden and out-scored Princeton, West Point, Pennsylvania Military College. Harvard, with a battered lineup, did not look hopefully toward the final game with Yale until a 198-pound oarsman, Forrester A. Clark, hastened down from New London where he had helped take the scalp of the Yale crew. Young Mr. Clark, himself no mean polo player, seemed to inspire hitherto hidden skill in his teammates, particularly in Messrs. Cotton and White. And so, Harvard took the lead and might have won the game-except for the mad riding of tall, angular Winston F. C. Guest, who made...
...decision from the Yale. Another team numbered among the visiting nine's victims is Norwich while the Bates aggregation, over which the University ball-tossers struggled out a 14 to 12 decision, is the only other group beside the Dartmouth nine which sports a New Hampshire scalp...
Professor W. Z. Ripley, noted economist of the University, who was recently injured in an automobile accident in New York, is not in a critical condition, it was announced last night. He suffered lacerations of the scalp due to splintered glass...