Word: blues
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stated by a Yale man that Capt. Peters attended the Princeton-Columbia game with a false moustache and blue glasses in order to witness the Princeton play. He was recognized, however. This is a serious change, and we hope it is untrue. - Princetonian...
...playing of Yale as a team cannot be classed as worthy of its usual high commendation, but, notwithstanding the evident lack of first-class material, there was still exhibited much of the old time determination to win. But fortune has, for this time at least, decided against the blue. We recognize the pluck shown by the members of the Yale team, but at last their old rivals have surpassed them. There has always existed thorough cordiality between our players and those of Princeton, and we appreciate our opportunity to congratulate the champions upon their well-earned victory. We extend...
...glistened with the starch of Brines' Troy Laundry, knickerbockers of the most approved Oscar Wilde pattern, and in his hand carried a crush hat. The two sides were distinguished by a bit of ribbon in the button-hole of each man; the Yale men as of old, wore light blue; the Harvard men, pale pink, crimson having been discarded long before as being too loud. The ball used was perfectly round, about half the size of a Rugby, and covered with velvet of delicate tint...
After time had been called for the second half, hardly ten minutes had elapsed when two serious accidents had occurred. A champion of the blue, in his undue haste in trying to get the ball, slipped and fell, tearing a serious rent in his knickerbockers, which necessitated his withdrawal from the field and the filling of his place with a substitute. The other accident happened to a Harvard man, who, in some way smutched his Troy-laundried shirk bosom, obliging him to retire to the gymnasium in order to make a change. These were the only serious accidents...
...these columns. Other features of the catalogue are substantially the same as last year. The dignified form of a bound volume, and the patriotic color are still preserved. Another year has but to pass before no class in college will have its memory stained by the old pale blue paper covered catalogue of 1882-83, and previous years...