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...recent article in the Princetonian, speaking of the disbandment of the Harvard Lacrosse team, says...
...seems to us that such an insinuation as this in another college paper is both unfair and boastful, not at all in the spirit that should pervade intercollegiate athletics and opinions. Our lacrosse team was forced to disband, as we know, from manifest lack of support, with the conviction that the sport of lacrosse could not be maintained here in future. The men worked hard to beat Princeton, but failed, and took the failure in a manly way. No agreement with Princeton has been cancelled, nothing done with which she could find fault. In face of her success...
...game with Yale Ninety-two, at New Haven. At present the chances seem to be greatly in favor of Yale, and it will be only by the hardest kind of work that the Harvard men will be able to do the college justice. On that day the Yale university team plays no championship game, and so the freshmen will be able to call upon the members of the 'varsity nine from Ninety-two In addition to this circumstance. Yale will have the advantage of playing on the home ground. It is probable also, that on account of the Harvard-Princeton...
This defeat, coming as it does at the most unfavorable time of the season, should not cause discouragement. Four out of Harvard's remaining five games are to be played in Cambridge, and the team will have the advantage of playing on the home grounds while its opponents will have a corresponding disadvantage. In addition to this, we know that the team may count on hearty support from the college. The men throughout the university feel that Harvard's chances for final victory are by no means to be despaired of, and they will do all in their power...
Harvard played Yale Saturday afternoon on the Yale field and was beaten 15 to 3. Stagg's pitching, and the general excellence of the Yale team won the game. Harvard could not hit Stagg effectively, for although Harvard found the ball fifteen or more times the Yale fielders, both infield and out, were so sure that only three base hits were made. Stagg made one of his most remarkable records, and Poole as catcher, was all that any nine could desire. Downer did not do himself justice, and was hit badly, Yale making fourteen hits for twenty...