If the Track Team was not, as Mr. Lathrop says, overstrained at the time of the Harvard-Yale dual games, it becomes both an interesting and a difficult question to decide why the defeat was so decisive. It could not have been entirely because Yale had better men, as a comparison of previous records showed; nor was the slow track entirely to blame, because not only the runners but the high-jumpers, broad-jumpers and pole-vaulters were far below their usual form.
It still seems to us that most of the men were overstrained at the time of the games in question. This was suggested in the first place with a full knowledge of what the work of the men had been, and after consultation with several members of the team. It is doubtful if the poor condition was all due to the actual work given the men from day to day. The frequent athletic meetings which were entered during the spring must also have done a great deal to keep the members of the team from being at their best in the games with Yale.
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