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...stroke is a promising man and has had considerable experience in rowing, having stroked the winning interscholastic crew last year and the winning fall Freshman eight. He is light but has the power, endurance and life to row a strong race. George at 7 is clumsy and tends to slug when he is tired, but is a powerful man and has clean watermanship. Whitwell at 6 has held his place throughout the season and shown steady improvement; he is heavy but has the strength to pull his weight. Graydon, No. 5, is one of the smoothest and most powerful oars...
...students about to receive the Bachelor of Arts degree from the first centre of learning in America. Not a single manly quality is called forth. No premium is set on courage, strength, or endurance. On the contrary, the most noticeable feature of the whole affair is often some underhand slugging, "pasting" a man, as it is called. The remark is not unfrequently made by men that they are going "to lay for so and so! " What must the spectators think of Harvard students when they see one man "slug" another around the Tree on Class Day? The first thing they...
...game between the freshmen and sophomores on Jarvis field yesterday afternoon was the poorest exhibition of foot-ball that has been seen in Cambridge this season. In fact it was not only poor foot-ball, but a disgraceful exhibition, for holding, off-side play and slugging were constant and evident. It is a little ungrateful, perhaps, to criticize harshly officials who act out of kindness to the captains of the class teams, but it is only fair to the men who played to say that there would have been no temptation for their forgetting themselves as far as they...
...time in wrestling and singging, exercises at which the visitors were quite as adept as themselves. This was especially true of the centre of the line. Such work is not football and will never win against men who keep their heads about them. The tendency of the men to slug becomes more and more apparent every day. It is a sure confession of weakness. Furthermore, if persisted in, will result in the disqualification of the men we need most in some of the important games...
...Harvard nine is in daily practice. They have an ample cage to practice in where they "slug" bars sand-filled, and go through the other mysteries of "throw us a catch, Jimmy;" * * * Their battery, with few exceptions, remains unchanged. Phillips, last year's 3rd base in now captain, vice Beman resigned. Smith, (olim second base) is pitcher; his forte is "drops and curves." * * * The same men are on the crew this year, except Penrose and Starron. Mumford is captain, vice Storm resigned. - Harvard athletics in Cornell...