Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lacrosse is making a hard struggle for existence at Cambridge University. We are hoping that the proposed visit of the Canadian and American lacrosse teams will increase the interest in this novel game. The Cambridge club numbers forty members, of whom at least one-tenth have played the game before. [Cambridge Corr. Varsity...
...playing under the English rules and when both sides enter into these mauls the struggle is often quite exciting. But as our team is accustomed to play an open formation game they could quickly transfer the rushing across the field; a performance which made it rather embarrassing to the Canadian men, who were massed in another part of the field. Under their rules the game is apt to be very rough and dangerous, but at the same time not particularly lively or exciting; so, on the whole, the sentiment seems to be decidedly in favor of the American college game...
...large tract of Canadian timber land is in flames, and much valuable cord wood is being destroyed...
...secretary of the National Lacrosse Association is trying to arrange a series of games for next fall between American and Canadian colleges...
...pictures by George Fuller, of Boston, just completed, have been sold to Bostonians for $4,000 each. One is called "Lorette - Evening," and is the figure of a French-Canadian peasant girl. The other is called "Priscilla Fauntleroy," and represents the ethereal girl in "The Blithedale Romance," who forms a contrast to Zenobia...