The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . ONE OF WHICH LOOKS MORE LIKE A HOUND THAN A POINTER, TILL SHE STRAIGHTENS OUT ON POINT (*• 274). (Photo : A. G. Hulme-Beaman.) 2/6. OXFORD v. CAMBRIDGE: OXFORD COMING OUT.{Photo : Bowden Bros., Buckingham Palace Road. ) FOOTBALL AT THE UNIVERSITIES. By B. FLETCHER ROBINSON. IF you ask any undergraduate, whether past orpresent, he will tell you that the joys of football are never the same after leaving the Universities;and when you consider the question, I think vouwill agree that he has right on his side. EveryOxfo
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . ONE OF WHICH LOOKS MORE LIKE A HOUND THAN A POINTER, TILL SHE STRAIGHTENS OUT ON POINT (*• 274). (Photo : A. G. Hulme-Beaman.) 2/6. OXFORD v. CAMBRIDGE: OXFORD COMING OUT.{Photo : Bowden Bros., Buckingham Palace Road. ) FOOTBALL AT THE UNIVERSITIES. By B. FLETCHER ROBINSON. IF you ask any undergraduate, whether past orpresent, he will tell you that the joys of football are never the same after leaving the Universities;and when you consider the question, I think vouwill agree that he has right on his side. EveryOxford and Cambridge player is full of youngenthusiasm for the game. There is no profession-alism, nothing indeed to lower his opinion of thesport he loves. And then the honour of it ! Statisticians willtell vou that a Blue has a subsequent marketvalue, to be expressed in pounds, shillings, andpence. This may be true, though the idea ishorrible enough ; but at Oxford and Cambridgethe Blue is filled only with the glorv of hisposition, to the exclusion of mercenary calcula-tions as to the subsequent advantage that itmay mean to him. His friends are proud to beseen walking in his company ; even his tradesme
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