The Princeton men who went to Cambridge to witness the foot-ball game with Harvard Saturday, witnessed as plucky an up-hill game on Princeton's part as could have been desired. As the subsequent play indicated, an entirely unprecedented and purely technical decision of the umpire turned the scales in Harvard's favor. Yet although laboring under immense disadvantage from this ruling, and the crippled condition of other members of the team-Princeton kept a team far out-weighing her from scoring for three-qnarters of the game. In the minds of Princeton men there is but little doubt that the issue would have been different but for the ruling off of Cowan, but the game is finished and such suggestions are useless. The contest became one in which Harvard relied on her weight entirely, using but a single trick. The disorganization of the Princeton team left her at a great disadvantage and the fight became an up-hill one. Every man on the team deserves credit for coolness and pluck to the very end of the match. As to the decision of the referee, it surpasses in unfairness anything we have ever seen on the foot-ball field. He over stepped the limits of his office when he disqualified a player for unintentional foul tackling.- Princetonian.
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