The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-23
THE RTsuLT.

If, indeed, the times must come Couce in seven years is not oyer-frequenD when our good friend Johnny Harvard must defeat dear old Elihu on the grid iron. we believe we can reflect the sentiments of every vale man when we express the hope such defeats may al- ways he Ike that at Vale Field Satur day Without doubt it was an honor a great honor. for Harvard 10 win such a game; but. on the other hand, with out offering any excuses, there was honor and glory for the "blue stock lnged men of Yale in losing such q game. Furthermore. unless our con cluslous are far astray, the Harvard Vale football game of 1908 win go down in history not only as hotly contested and clamorously attended. but as marking the birth of 3 new and closer friendllness between the adherents of the two oldest institutions of the coun try, which are, and eyer must he, nat ural rivals in every activity however they are viewed
 It must have seemed good to the boys from Harvard to celebrate football victory on the yale grldron Not in years had they been SO privileged The salome whIrlwind dancers of the stage were not Gn it' with some of the gray haired Harvard grads who scam pered down on the turf to cavort about as they had SO often been compelled to see the men of Yale do after lowering the crimson colors in defeat. But, what ever else, let this be said and said em phatcally 10 the lasting reputation of ! old Harvard that In all that uproar and confusion which followed in the ! few short moments after the last whistle had blown, Harvard and liar yard men did not for one moment for | get themselves. What more inspiring | sight was there during all that after noon of concentrated thrills than when the Harvard leglons gathered in front of the Yale cheering section, whence came the beloved strains Of our Bright College Years there to burst forth in the mightiest cheer of the afternoon in compliment to their tested rivals of New Haven7 It was a supreme mos ment when an intercollegiate friendship worth boastlng of was cemented
 Yale is always q hard loser Yale is always perfectly willing to admit that 1t is on the athletic field first, last, and always to win That Is sport Nothing could have more truly shown how hard q loser Vale is than the significant way in which her adherents persisted in quietly watching, watching, watch ing and waiting for their team to make good in those moments of agony toward the close of the game A Princeton cheering section, in A similar predicament, would have yelled its lungs out in song and shout, urging it's men on. Not So with Yale Yet, in spite of the difficulty Vale always ex- periences in swallowing defeat there have been few moments when Harvard and the men of Harvard seemed dearei to Yale men than in that short sessior at the field Saturday after the game If ever Yale ever loved Harvard, il did then,
 Useless and unsportsmanIjke it i' now to say that the crimson won by 2 very small score. Victory is victory and a miss is as good as a mile. IF the years to come when future gen. crations of Yale men read their annals of Yale events it will be the fact thai Harvard won that will be all-impor. taut not the score by which Harvard won with no excuses to offer Yale