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Yale's well-rounded defense made possible a victory over Virginia. Six times the southerners marched down the field to within scoring distance, but the Yale line was always able to tighten up and hold the opponents from passing the goal-posts. Virginia's strength lay in swinging runs which balked the Yale ends. The play was nearly even during the second and fourth periods, but during the first and third periods Yale scored three touchdowns, one on a forward pass...
Hooper has been only fair at 3. He is unsteady and has not good control at the catch. This is owing to the fact that he doesn't tighten up with his knees on the last part of his recovery...
...system of cliques and combinations which tend so strongly to narrow our student life. But this meeting is not in itself enough. If college life is to broaden out into its best form, the college press and every influence which has any place here must excite itself to tighten the bond of real friendship, and to eliminate whatever of hypocrisy and insincerity may now remain among us. Things are started in the right direction and it only remains to keep them going...
...barrier to the desired result. It seems to us clear, therefore, that the ultimate effect of the recent vote of the Athletic committee will simply be to free our intercollegiate athletics from many disagreeable complications such as those which have come into prominence this college year, and to tighten the bonds already existing between Harvard and Yale until they are at last drawn together into a dual league...