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Little importance is to be attached to the discontinuation of spring football. The chief purpose of two weeks of voluntary practice was to give Freshmen some training under University coaches. The absence of many men engaged in other sports naturally prevented any very serious work.
The amount of discussion about spring football was out of all proportion to its importance. Some detected in these few days of practice proof that players thought of nothing but goalposts and grand-stands from one November to another. Others pointed out that crew, track, and tennis are practised in all seasons simply because players like a favorite sport too well to neglect it during three quarters of the year.
Harvard's spring football practice was brief and informal. Its discontinuation, for reasons of economy, deserves no sport-page headlines.
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