The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . nges through eightor nine matches untilthe great day of theinter-University matchdraw- nigh. The selec-tion committee meetin final conclave andpick the team thathave the right in futureto wear the blue cap,with or without thesilver tassel. What jealousies, what heart-burnings there are, only theundergraduate knows ! The Rugby match isplayed at tin- end of the autumn term, the Associa-tion match during the spring term. There is little of that severe training which pre-cedes the inter-University football matches inAmeric
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . nges through eightor nine matches untilthe great day of theinter-University matchdraw- nigh. The selec-tion committee meetin final conclave andpick the team thathave the right in futureto wear the blue cap,with or without thesilver tassel. What jealousies, what heart-burnings there are, only theundergraduate knows ! The Rugby match isplayed at tin- end of the autumn term, the Associa-tion match during the spring term. There is little of that severe training which pre-cedes the inter-University football matches inAmerica. With the Yankees the game is far morecomplicated, and the trouble taken in coachingthe teams is remarkable. Indeed, there i^ a stor)told of how the schemes and tricks of the Harvardteam, which were the result of months of practice,had to be entirelv altered owing to its being dis-covered that a Yale man had been watching theirmanceuvres from a neighbouring water tower ! InEngland, however, the teams go to none of thi <extremes. Even the training is light, differing. VARSITIES V. REST OF THE SOUTH : A SMART PICK-UP.[Plioto : Botoden Bros., Buckingham Palace Road. ) After the match comes a dinner and consequentrejoicing, and then it is a rush for the station andthe football tour in the case of tin Rugby touring team has a very pleasant time of it,whether the end of their journey be Edinburgh tomeet the Scotch teams, or Cardiff to meet the Welshteams, or Dublin to play the University and otherHibernian clubs. Each night they suffer from theerous hospitality of those whom they visit ; butwith men in such good training late hours havesmall effect. Indeed, I remember one match inDublin where dinner was followed bv a concert,and the concert by a supper, and the supper by aconcert, which ended in the chasing of the donsround the quadrangle, yet the team the followingafternoon played a mighty hard game and won. 28o THE SPORTS OF THE WORLD. Of University players the
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