Show j IS 18 A ROOSEVELT tS HERO HEROt E t pr President i e Consoles I Man M Mt Who t I Is Taken Out of Yale I i Harvard Game I 4 I I Cambridge Mass Nov No ov 27 Ernest Ver VerI I 1 j wonderful work as fullback k on football eleven which w defeated j Yale last Saturday has been recognize i I S by President Roosevelt wh who has written i I a II letter to congratulating him I The letter ieter follows I LIke ever every other good Harvard Hanard man I IS 0 S have the heartiest feeling of f gratitude to toa a I the entire team who won the great victory on Saturday last But I feel fee an especial sense of gratitude toward you ou It was wa i through you ou more than any anyone one else that j t i I the ball was put Iut in a position to enable I T I 1 Kennard to do the work which he did so 60 1 I admirably a and to kick the goal from the I I i field Held j t I For the good of the team your teal Indi Individual I I vidual good was sacrificed as through h hj this sacrifice and through the admirable j I work you ou had already done and through j fine tine kick a victory was won j I However It was a example of j the interest of an individual being sub subordinated subI I to the rood lood of ot the team there I I cannot b be any better lesson for our na national national life Ute than to teach that the good of off f the individual must be for forthe f forthe r the good of the people Now I have the heartiest admiration for feat He kicked the goal and he did a service that no one else could I have done and too much praise cannot canno I be given him but you are entitled t to tG every evry whit as much and every eer nan man I have bv met here hone feels Just the way I do With v best good wishes and congratulations be believe believe lieve me Sincerely yours THEODORE ROOSEVELT P S SI I wish I could thank personally pe every man on the eleven from Burr down and Houghton and Graves Grave and everybody who has baa done anything for tor the eleven including substitutes and the second eleven |