Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...case by the engrossing nature of the duties of an instructor in a large preparatory school; and in the other by the fact that the gentleman referred to is said on trustworthy authority to have entered the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania in the autumn of 1888 for the purpose of becoming a member of the Eleven, and to have left it as soon as the football season was over. It is further strengthened by the following admission of Captain Poe, published in the New York Evening Post, of November 2, in regard to a third player...
...evidence" further contains a letter written on April 11, 1889, by Mr. Stickney, who played on the Harvard Eleven this autumn, to Mr. Knowlton L. Ames at Princeton. The only part of this letter-which is printed in full herewith-which can possibly be adduced as evidence in support of the charge against the officers of the Harvard Association, is the following extract: "I am tutoring now at Cambridge with the idea of entering Harvard, and Cumnock thinks I am going to enter sure next year, but they don't seem to want to do much...
...smaller numbers, was more prone to, these objectionable practices than Yale or Harvard. We leave it to you and to the public to judge from the evidence presented in 1 and 2 above whether or not she can justly be thought to have yielded to them this autumn in the constitution of her Football team. She is certainly on record as having opposed the passage of the rules aimed at their suppression, which were proposed in the convention held on Nov. 4. She alone voted against them, and the captain of her team is reported by the delegate...
...come back and play. If it had not been for the smaller colleges-who have no business in the league at all, as the scores this year show.- Ames would have been disqualified, and with a decent amount of daily practice instead of the forty minutes of this autumn we should have beaten Princeton and the Thanksgiving day game would have been ours. We can beat them next year, and then talk about a dual league...
...field at Watertown used last spring by the Cricket club is not in fit condition for practice this autumn, and the use of new grounds has been secured through the kindness of the Cambridge Cricket club. These grounds are at the foot of Putnam Avenue just below Brookline street. The eleven will practice there until their last match at Lowell, Saturday, Oct, 19. The match scheduled for next Saturday with Pawtucket has been cancelled but an effort will be made to arrange a class game if enough candidates come out today and tomorrow...