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TH E HOBART IIK K A I J ) . agement to many of us, Already- we hear students saying that there is no use of trying to get up a foot ball team ; that we cau't do i t ; that all our best men are gone ; that we can’t fill their places. W h at rank nonsense ! K v e ry year since we have played foot ball, we have lost good men, but somehow their places have been filled. W e thought we could never get a quarter like Patten. W e knew we could never find a full-hack like Ditldy I>avisor a half like Service But we did. W e won ju s t the same Now we think w e can never find a center equal to W akeman. W e ll— don’t let us wait and see. I,et us develop one. As has been emphasized in college m eetings, we have simply got to get out and work. If any of us have the m inutest idea that we can play, we do the college au injury by keeping off the field. H inkey didn’t know he could play foot ball until he went into practice games— or to bring it nearer home, ‘ ‘ Mike ’ ’ Case knew he could not do a n y thing in it until he went out and made himself one of the best \ buckers” Hobart has ever had. So why need we be discouraged ? We have full fledged players among us. We have untrained, undeveloped talent. T h e great big brawny men in the Freshmen class must get out and hustle. W e mention the entering class particularly because it clearly has the most material. To it, we a lw a y s look for new men. A n y of them who, so to speak, waste their sweetness on the desert air, deserve to be hazed into foot ball. It is easy enough to learn the game. It is hard enough to make a foot ball player. The right spirit with good, hard conscientious work will do it. Only eleven men can m ake the ’ V a rsity team, and they must be the best eleven men in the college. Competition is the life of football. Everybody compete. W e have said so much about football because ju s t now football demands our attention more than anything else. Athletics iu general deserve more than a passing thought. Don’t let the spirit stop with football. T h a t game w ill fit us for other branches. W e want a fall field day. but we want contestants, too. The inter-collegiate games are to be held with us. It is the darling w ish of every Hobart man that Hobart shall win. We must manifest some spirit other than that o f indifference. “ Palma non sine p ulven.\ W ork, work, work is ahead of us. Those of us who cm do nothing else, cau encourage aud cheer. Bet no one dare utter a single discouraging word. We shall rvin. Hip H o b a r t !
