Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spirit is arising we quite agree with our contemporary that it should be checked. But such considerations are beside the point at issue - as to the advisability of narrowing the college league. The Athenoeum mistakes when it says a trifle savagely and bitterly : "To discover which crowd can beat is the sole object, and if in the course of a few years the contest narrows down to two or three institutions, let all the rest drop cut; they are wholly unnecessary." The real object of the league, on the contrary, we think, is to afford chance for enjoyable sport...
...mild, courteous spirit which we have hitherto shown. Neither do we wish to see fulfilled the prophesy of the Yale man, who said after the game Saturday, "You call our playing a mucker game, but you will have to come to it if you ever expect to beat us." But at all events, let us not be driven out of foot-ball by the illegal practises of a single college...
...Andover beat Exeter yesterday by a score of 3 touchdowns...
...last few days that position has been well filled by Gardner, who will develop into a good player with practice. It seems particularly unfortunate that a game with Yale could not have been arranged this year, as the Harvard freshmen for the past five years have been unable to beat the Yales, and now for the first time the team seems able to cope with them with favorable results...
Princeton's whole energies this year, according to the impressions of a visiting Yale man, seem bent on athletics. The class teams are all, from freshman to senior, hard at work, and they will make a desperate effort to beat Yale...