The Daily Dozen

(Ed. Note: The following editorial appeared in the CRIMSON on Monday, October 14, 1895. It followed the first game on record between Harvard and West Point. The former won 4-0 in a drenching rain that made play almost impossible.)

The game with West Point was on the whole a satisfactory one, considering the discouraging predictions which had been made in some quarters. The Harvard line showed a strength which was beyond expectation,--a favorable sign, judging from past years, when weaknesses at this point had been the rule at the beginning of the season.

If the West Point team did not put up as strong a game as was expected, its playing should be a valuable lesson to every football player at Harvard, as an example of what can be accomplished by earnest application, under the most unfavorable circumstances. The strict discipline which is maintained at the military academy makes it impossible for the football players to have more than fifteen minutes each day for practice. An exception is made on Saturday, when they are allowed an hour and twenty minutes for a game and on one other day in the week when they are given half an hour. The daily practice is at six o'clock in the morning.