Word: contests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hoped that a large number of men will assemble in front of Bartlett's to cheer the team off. It is to meet its first formidable opponents in the Princeton eleven, and a hearty send-off will show how deeply the college is interested in the result of the contest. If there are any who intend to go to Princeton who have not yet signed, they are urged to do so at once...
...Leavitt and Peince's for the signature of those who ??? to accompany the eleven to Princeton next Saturday. It seems almost needless for us to urge every man who possibly can, to go with the team; but we feel so positively that the success of the eleven in the contest with Princeton will depend largely on the support the college gives it, that we can not help saying an earnest word in hopes that it may influence those who are levitating whether to go or no. The team has been very unfortunate in losing valuable men at one time...
...Since that change, football has taken the foremost place in college sports and is now the most popular and scientific game played. Some years afterwards the "blocking" system of play was introduced by Princeton. The championship was won by Yale for several years, Princeton following closely. In 1884 the contest between Yale and Princeton was a draw and the championship was not awarded. Princeton won in 1885 by a remarkable run of Lamar's, which turned the score at the very end of the game. In 1887 the game was again a draw though the championship was virtually awarded...
...sort of work has lasted quite long enough and the sooner the captain and his men wake up to the fact that they have something to do besides amusing themselves, the better it will be for them and the less the chance of an ignominious defeat in the coming contest with Yale...
...made a convincing speech. He as an old Harvard graduate thought that if Harvard professors taught free trade, in the abstract they were right, but since in this country we are confronted by necessity, we have to consider in what manner we may best support ourselves in the contest for a living...