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Animosity toward Yale on the athletic field, once a reality and later a tradition, is now largely a myth. In its place there is the right sort of rivalry combined with clean sportsmanship. Dean Briggs has commented on this feeling in his report on athletics. His words, bearing added weight because they appear in an official document, sound the welcome closing of a needlessly hostile attitude, that has long and steadily been growing weaker at both universities. Yale and Harvard have too much in common, their ultimate aims too nearly coincide for any petty barriers to exist between them...
...Sportsmanship in Baseball...
Dean Briggs compared the spirit of sportsmanship in football as it exists today with that of several decades ago and said that on the whole it was much better. The clean cut play of the last Yale game furnished a pleasing contrast to the somewhat questionable tactics sometimes employed in former championship matches. In baseball, however, Dean Briggs still found much to condemn, censuring particularly unsportsmanlike talk by the players. He urged that the umpire be not only empowered but instruc- ted to stop any unnecessary noise and to enforce chivalry among the contestants...
There is a communication reprinted herein from the Alumni Bulletin concerning the cheering at the Yale game. It is signed Sporticus Antiquus and treats Yale sportsmanship in the stands rather severely. The Yale cheers did seem more frequent than necessary when Harvard was on the defensive, but as far as rattling from the stands is concerned, both in this last game and at baseball games, there can never be any certainty that it does not come largely from those near-collegians who cause so much trouble on other occasions; at least, such a severe indictment of such a very general...
...general athletics in New England, of particular interest because it dealt with a greater number of colleges and schools than any other sectional report. He found no abatement of interest in sport; an improvement in its administration, especially in the preparatory schools; and great progress everywhere in good sportsmanship...