Word: blues
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...drawbridge, and steamed up to the Longwood bridge. The referee's tug, the "Sprague," was filled with '87 men; the "Mattie Sargent" carried for the third year the '88 delegation, while the "Curlew" and the "Emily" performed the same service for '89 and '90. The "Curlew" was gay in blue and white streamers, while the "Sargent" flew a green and white flag, and carried a large apple-branch with white blossoms at her mast-head. The Union boat-house and the adjacent roofs were all covered with people as early as four o'clock, while the wall was lined with...
Between eight and nine hundred persons went up to the Polo Grounds in New York last Saturday to see the first championship ball game of the College League. About eight hundred and seventy-five of these spectators were ardent admirers of the blue and white, and were expecting an easy victory for the home team, coached and trained as it was in the school of the celebrated New York "Giants." In this they were grievously mistaken. The Harvard men got down to work on the first ball pitched, and did not let go their grip until twenty-seven Columbia players...
Each candidate for Honors will bring to the first examination five blue books, superscribed with his name and that of his class...
...Ninety Blue Rock targets are to be shot at, thrown from a Blue Rock trap a distance of not less than 40 yards. Each contestant to shoot at thirty targets, 10 consecutively before leaving the score. The first ten to be thrown straight away. The second 10 at a right angle, to the right. The third 10 at a left angle, to the left. The shooter shall stand 16 yards from the trap if using a 12 guage gun, or 18 yards for a 10 guage...
...vacation and practiced twice a day at the field. The men are playing as follows: Strait, c.; Stuart, p.; Calhoun, s.s.; Day, 1b.; Peter Tud, 2b; Bonbright, 3b.; Nilson r.f.; Traver, c.f.; Simmons. 1.f.; substitutes, Baldwin and Irwin. The uniforms will consist of white jerseys, gray trousers and blue and white blazers and caps. The nine is not regarded as particularly strong, and will have hard work to defeat the Harvard freshmen. They have already played several exhibition games.- Boston Globe...