Word: balle
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very position is almost sure to be unreliable. However that may be, even they, we believe, would find it difficult to explain the coming of George and Cash at the eleventh hour on any other ground than the supposition that they entered college for the purpose of playing foot ball. Now that these men are registered and the present trouble has arisen it will no doubt behoove them for a time to improve their minds...
...recent issue of the Boston Post contains a letter from a graduate who takes a different view of the foot-ball question from that held by Mr. Codman. The letter admits that the meeting of last week was premature and possibly unjust to Princeton, but denies that it was due to the sting of defeat. After pointing out that unfriendly feeling between Harvard and Princeton did not begin with the foot-ball game the letter describes Harvard's position in the following words...
...Whatever may have been the sins of ourselves or others in the past, this year our hands are clean and our hearts are pure. Princeton has broken every law of the foot-ball association to which no penalty is attached. We have not this year stooped to her methods, and we sincerely hope that in the future we never shall. Yet it is useless to attempt to cope with her or any other college that uses such means. We prefer not to play foot-ball at all, if we cannot play on equal terms, without jockeying, and without question...
DEAR SIRS.- Just at this time the one absorbing topic that interests our university is foot ball. The game of last Saturday is talked over and the prospects of success on Thanksgiving day. If the arrangements in the future for the handling of the crowds and preservation of good order, at the big championship games, will only equal those at Springfield, the pleasure of attending the games will be much increased...
After the end of the foot-ball season little time will remain before the close of the college term for athletic work of any kind. But after the Christmas vacation the crew will begin regular training. Up to this time little work of any importance has been done. Of last year's crew five are still in college, although out of these only three can be counted on for positions in the boat. Gill and Hartwell will probably not row. The most prominent candidates at present are: Aiken, '91, Isham, '91, Simms, '90S., Klimpke, '92' Swayne, '92, and Balliet...