Arbutus . - posed a well-balanced team of men physically fit, endowedwith a world of nerve, well coached, but suffering- the mis-fortune of facing teams on its schedule, the best that theirrespective schools had turned out inyears. Chicago, Illinois, Notre Dameand Wisconsin, all have not hadas good football teams in years asthey turned out against Indiana lastfall. These were the teams thatthe Varsity yielded to after givingthem all memorable battles. Andwhen the smoke of these hard con-flicts cleared away, the team emerged,not crest-fallen, but courageous, de-feated, but not routed, and in th
Arbutus . - posed a well-balanced team of men physically fit, endowedwith a world of nerve, well coached, but suffering- the mis-fortune of facing teams on its schedule, the best that theirrespective schools had turned out inyears. Chicago, Illinois, Notre Dameand Wisconsin, all have not hadas good football teams in years asthey turned out against Indiana lastfall. These were the teams thatthe Varsity yielded to after givingthem all memorable battles. Andwhen the smoke of these hard con-flicts cleared away, the team emerged,not crest-fallen, but courageous, de-feated, but not routed, and in thetermnology of the athletic world,came back, with double strengthand took the one game of the sea-son from Purdue at Lafayette, onNovember Twenty-first. The 1908 football varsity will beremembered for the stubborn battlesthat it lost to higher-classed teams,but laurel wreathed it will remain inthe memory of football annals, undy-ing, for the victory at Lafayette inthe closing game of the season. H, Paddock. 156 Season Chronological
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