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...CRIMSON made a fatal mistake in this respect. Let me enlighten them as to the character of the Brown team. Though their adoption of the title Brown met no outburst of righteous indignation at that college, they were and are no more nor less than a scrub team of the same nature as the team they played. Mr. Hale, their manager, will vouch for this statement...
Secondly, in answer to the extravagant language of "Senior," I would like to ask who holds the stronger position, those who confine their interest in athletics to railing at a scrub team for an unfortunate choice of a name, or those who in an unorganized state of a sport organize themselves and take the trouble and expense to secure games with teams, thus giving an impulse to a more advanced growth and organization of this sport in years to come...
Since, however, the interest of persons like "Senior" has not yet proved itself of any worth by the formation of scrub teams, so beneficial to the development of a sport in its early stages, the Oxfords, in so far as they are Harvard men, must by virtue of the college of their origin still bear the burden of representing Harvard in ice polo...
...those of the Boston papers concerning a certain club of students in this University who have taken upon themselves the title of "Harvard University Ice Polo Team." Is not this a bold and unwarranted assumption? That five men should band together in what is essentially nothing more than a scrub organization and then call this a University team and represent Harvard as such, is the height of presumption. There is, as things stand, nothing to prevent their next step - that of placing an "H" upon their sweaters - a proceeding which I feel sure would arouse a protest from the whole...
...might be said that a protest against the name would have come in better grace before, rather than after the defeat by Brown. We do not think so. The University at large cares very little about the name of a scrub team so long as it limits itself to playing unimportant teams. But when a few men who call themselves the University team play against the accredited representatives of another college and the impression is given to the public that the contest is between the two colleges, the University has a right to demand that the team which bears...