The B. A. A. football men are feeling rather indignant over the action of the University of Pennsylvania authorities in cancelling at the eleventh hour the game scheduled for yesterday afternoon on Manhattan Field. The Boston team had already started for New York when word was received that the game was off. As a substitute the Pennsylvania men offered to send their freshman team on to play, but the Boston men absolutely refused to agree to any compromise. The cancellation of the date by the Quakers was done by the advice of their medical director, Dr. J. W. White, who expressed the opinion that the majority of the team were unfit physically to engage in a game.
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