Life — December 9, 1897 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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525 Those ‘“H’s.” FE appears there has been a suspicion at New Haven that the his- toric relinquishment of “IPs” by the Harvard football team after the game with Yale was a reflection on Y plylug that a team that could not beat Yale was disgraced, A Yale uate named Osborn — onel Osborn, Yale s quoted, in the New York Jerald of No- vembe Yale sentiment in a lot of ill-advised remarks to the effect that Harvard bad put upon Yale “a delib- e insult’ which mands explanation and that John Har owed Eli Yale an apoloxy. Of all preposterous no- tions, this seems the most ris from a source that ought to be trustworthy that the re- Hnquishment of the “I's by the IL d_ players, which has been reported to have been a measure of discipline devise coachers, was really voluntary impulse of the players themselves, who considered that they had missed an opportunity in the game with Yale Harvard did 1 sorel by Pennsylvania was due to the fact that Pennsylvania is not wd that the Harvard players were felt to have done their very z fey 2 3 > x I faa & 3 g £4 Zz < a w x faa Zz f] best against Pennsylvania, whereas they were not satisfied with their efforts in the other game, Fe ale man to find a xrievance in the dropping of those “11's” is mach less excusable than the act the supposed grie ance is based on, Foot- ball players, after a hard ne, are very emotional creatures, and should be leniently judged; but grad- es, when they talk in the hearing of newspapers, ought to make a sincere effort to talk sense, comicbooks.com