“Good for you!” TR wrote to Ted on November 19, the day after the Harvard freshmen lost to Yale, 0–16. “Of course I am sorry that Yale beat us, but I am very glad that you made the team and I am not merely glad but very proud that you should have played as you evidently did play in the game.” There was no holding back here. Roosevelt swelled with affection for his namesake, who had accomplished something that TR had always wanted for himself.
