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Our love of football, dormant all through the season, was tardily awakened by a succinct little account of the Harvard-Yale game, in the Continental edition of the London Daily Mail. After a short introductory paragraph explaning to its readers on the Continent that the game had been won by Yale with a score of 3-0, the Daily Mail swung into the fray: "A 'spinner' by Yale's right half through the centre gave the first down to the Crimsons (Harvard) at the 11-yard mark. Then Eli, the Yale left half, heaved a long one that failed."

Hereafter we will know to what publication to turn for our sporting news. No more wading through column after column of local trash! --New Yorker

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