Word: blues
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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From the Yale News we learn that the enthusiastic supporters of the blue have organized a club for polo playing on roller skates. Coupled with this report comes the alarming statement that this new departure is made with a view of bringing one more championship to New Haven, for we are informed that a strong team has already been put in training, and that a challenge has been sent to the Harvard Polo Club. But this time, though it is evident that Yale is hunting for one more scalp wherewithal to complete the mural decorations of its wigwam, Harvard must...
...wonderful how many "brothers" they have. Before the Thanksgiving foot ball game between Yale and Princeton they were divided up into factions as they were on national politics. They flaunted up and down the corridors with the barber's pole of Princeton's orange and black or the blue of Yale conspicuously displayed. The majority wore the blue, not so much for male reasons as because it was more becoming and easier to get. Harvard also is a great favorite with the girls, but not so many of them have waltzed with a real Harvard student, and Yale and Princeton...
...Athletic Committee will but think of the pleasing combinations of color and the artistic roupangs possible in a game of foot ball, and instead of shuddering at it as a "brutal prize fight," consider it in the light of a "study in orange and black," or a "symphony in blue and crimson," we feel confident that they will withdraw their objections and let it live.-[Courant...
...Field to see the long-talked-of match between the elevens chosen from the waiters at the upper and lower ends of Memorial Hall. The two elevens appeared, or rather straggled upon the field at about the same time, and were the subject of universal comment and admiration. The blues were headed by a pair of 200-pounders, about as large around as they were tall, while to offset them the reds showed up a couple of six-footers of stalwart build, one of whom was clad in a gorgeous crimson rowing jersey, and the other in a loose flannel...
...names and rank of the students are the only points which make the new catalogue different from its immediate predecessor. And now that a suitable binding has been decided upon, why should it not become the permanent one, in a short time to be as familiar as the old blue paper covered catalogues were to so many classes...