On account of an accident to the mails between New York and Boston Saturday night, the report of the Harvard-Princeton game by the foot-ball correspondent of the CRIMSON did not reach Cambridge in time for publication in Monday's paper. Although the report published was the best that could be had under the circumstances, there are many inaccurate statements made in it. It would be difficult to correct these sufficiently without giving another long detailed account of the game; which the editors think hardly worth while, as the subject is now four days old. But to correct the entirely wrong impression the accounts of the Boston papers seem to have given those who did not see the game, it may be well to state that although the Harvard team was outplayed, it gave Princeton a terribly hard struggle; and that under conditions as favorable for Harvard as those Saturday were for Princeton, the score made on that day might easily have been reversed. The playing and captaining of Sears deserves high praise The end rush work of Cumnock was magnificent. Porter and Cranston also played strong games.
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Bowdoin and Dartmouth.
