Show i ROOSEVELT I ELATED OVER BIG ViCTORY Commends WorK Worl of Ernest and the Punter Punter Punter Pun Pun- ter ter Kennard CAMBRIDGE Mass Nov 27 Emest Em- Em est eat wonderful work as fullback fullback full full- back on Harvard's football eleven which defeated Yale last Saturday has hasI I been recognized by President Roosevelt who has written a letter to Ve congratulating him The rho letter lotter follows LIko every other good Harvard man man I have the heartiest feeling o of gratitude to the entire team who won the groat great victory on Saturday last But I feel teel an anI especial sense of gratitude toward you I It was through you more than any one ono else elso that the ball bail was put In a position to enable Kennard to do tho the work which he did so admirably and to kick the goal from tho the field For the good of the team your our individual indi vidual good was sacrificed an and through h this sacrifice and aud through the admirable I work you ha had already done and through Kennard's fine fino kick a victor victory was as won However it was a 1 first rate rata example of I the interest of an individual being subordinated subordinated sub sub- to the good of the team team team- there thero cannot be any better lesson Jesson for our national life than thau to t teach ach that the good of the individual must be subordinated subordinated for the goof good of the people Now I have the heartiest admiration for Kennard's Kennard S 'S feat featt He kicked tho the goal goaland goaland oal oaland and ho he did a service that no one oue else could h have ve done and too ten much praise cannot be bc given iven him bim but you ou are arc entitled ent- ent tIed to every overy bit as ranch much and every cry Ulan span I 1 have bavo met here nere feels just tho the way I do With best good food w and rou congratulations believe e III me sincerely yours THEODORE ROOSEVELT P S. S I S.-I I wi wish b I could thank you personally personally per per per- every man on the ck eleven cg from Burr down and Houghton and Graves and everybody e who has bas done dono anything for tho the cloven eleven including tho the substitutes and the second eleven |