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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sophomores at Princeton hold the college championship in base ball, lawn tennis and lacrosse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/11/1889 | See Source »

Efforts are being made at Princeton to raise the money for a new base ball cage to take the place of the one destroyed last spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/11/1889 | See Source »

PRINCETON, Nov. 26-There was considerable indignation and excitement here today when the copy of the letter addressed to the Philadelphia Press by a young athlete, who was approached by Harvard men and offered remuneration for his services if he would enter Harvard and play on the Harvard base ball nine and foot ball eleven, was received, and this charge makes Harvard's position ticklish in the extreme...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL HARVARD EXPLAIN THIS? | 12/11/1889 | See Source »

...statement appeared recently in New York and Philadelphia papers in which it was alleged that certain inducements had been extended to me by a prominent Harvard base ball official to enter the Harvard Law School and play on the Harvard base ball nine and foot ball eleven. Though the name of Linn of the Harvard nine was not mentioned, he has seen fit to deny that overtures were made by him. Under the existing circumstances, therefore, it seems desirable to state the existing basis of the statement in the papers. Inducements of the character mentioned- a scholarship and pecuniary compensation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL HARVARD EXPLAIN THIS? | 12/11/1889 | See Source »

...have been informed that Mr. Ammerman is a base ball player, but I cannot find that he has any reputation as a foot ball player. He was not a member of Pennsylvania's foot ball team which played Harvard this year

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL HARVARD EXPLAIN THIS? | 12/11/1889 | See Source »

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