The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-10-07


enough. The university is being harmed, care
not who says otherwise; IL is a bad idea 10 ad.
vertise your university by winning teams, but II
Is worse to have IL held up to ridiCue by having
losing ones. So many defeats have made q
IrS SrGw r whTh ha mnT
count cannot be denied.
no team can really win, must be aroused.
AT Yale, where the university is as one in re-
Is already in the candidates. At Harvard the
captain and coachers have 10 get both spirit and
"ytcam play" Having got them the universit
Will usually give good support.
As rule however, either one or the other is
alone obtained. or else neither; sometimes for
obvious reasons, sometimes IL is hard to tell why.
In this case the university at large merely criti-
cisss and does not give real support.
won because they had that spirit OF winning.
They were bound they should win. They did. I
have seen them win with little team play. just
because they had the one idea OF get there " in
their minds. and stuck to IL TO the end IL Is use
less 10 taik ABOUT JACK OF material and poor
coaches. have seen teams lose which had the
best material.
At Cambridge the spirit is not put into the
men, either because the right kind Of men are
not on the team or because those whose task IL
Is cannot perform 1t. Often when II is obtained
the men are so overturned as to lose It all. The
time to have IL is when they play Yale.
:, To my mind the key is this: Get spirit into
Harvard teams and keep II there. How to do so
God forbid that we may ever have the Yale
spirit at Cam bridge; that spirit of beating at
athletic games, and causes them to be anything
but Rentlemanly contests. IL Is not necessary
10 cultivate such spirit as that to win.
Undue your candidates with an idea that they
must do their utmost TO win by fair means, TAX /;
ing no mean advantage to their opponents, and
yet not allowing themselves to be Imposed upon.
Teach them above all TO fight for their univer-
sity, and not for personal ends for a love OF the
sport, and not Of reading their names In some
newspaper.
When hear men, rs. for example. on this
years crew, counting the days before the race,
and wishing IL were nearer that their term of
training might be shorter, instead of wishing
them more numerous, that they might have so
much more time 10 improve their form. when
see men on the ball field foollng with the ball
during game In which they are behind, and
that game Yale contest, instead or cllnching
doubt that Harvard lacks athletic spirit
What l. our remedyl have considered many,
but the hest scheme seems To me to procure
some one graduate to coach each team and an
other the crew.
for A better man than James q. Lathrup
could not be found:
Let us have another such man for rowing and
another for baseball and football. Let him have
sole charge with the captain, and prophesy
that Harvard will see more victories than under
anV advisory committee arrangement such as
exists at present
The creation OF those committees was a step
forward. but three men can seldom agree, and
the one with the best views Is often voted down
by q captain. Better have one good coach who
will learn by his faults and carry through a
definite system, than have the shilly -shally ing
policy OF recent years.
ely the faults OF the past, such having loosely
coached teams enter the big game OF the year
such as entertaining the men or failing 10 imbne
them with the winning spirit and healthy love