Macalester College - Quid Nunc Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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touchdown apiece and with Mac men fighting gloriously against their' heavier opponents. The Carleton game two weeks later was a game of which any Macal- ester man may feel proud. Carleton had ten men who had played for three years on the same team. In addition, Stevenson, their quarterback and a new man, had a fine high school record at Albert Lea as a field general, Carleton with a favorable wind scored a place kick early in the first half. The rest of that half was even. ln the second half Macalester ran away with her opponents. Heed had two chances to tie the score by dropkicks and every Carelton supporter heaved a sigh of relief when the whistle blew. The last game with St. Cloud Normal is of no consequence in judging the season, inasmuch as the teachers had twenty pounds advantage per man in weight on an impossible field. How has the student body supported the game? By cheering and by boosting in the face of defeat and by sportsmanlike spirit in their treat- ment of visitors. The winning of games, while undeniably pleasant, is not the primary purpose of athletics. To give the best a man can give, to win modestly and to lose gracefully, is far more important in developing real men, men of integrity and courage, than to sacrifice wholesome college sentiment at the altar of cheap notoriety. Macalester will have good football teams in the future because the athletes are working for the good of the school and out of love for pure sport and not for individual preferment. The squads will not be large, for the number of men physically qualified to play the game is small. Every man, however, has the right spirit, and the student body, both women and men, are ever ready to encourage them in every possible way regardless of the results, and the players reciprocate by doing their best all the time. F. W. P. 1909 Football Record. Macalester ...... 0 Pillsbury . . Macalester. . . . . 0 St. Johns . . Macalester. . . . . 5 Hamline . . Macalester. . . . . 0 Carleton . . Macalester. . . . . 5 St. Cloud . . Totals.. . . . . .10 Opponents 124

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BILL HEED, '11 Football Captain, '10 125