Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Field of the unsightly and unsafe row of wooden seats on the south side of the field. In their place a far more comfortable and substantial set of seats is now being built. Last year the old seats were found to be totally inadequate for the needs of the crowd coming out see the championship football games, and many and loud were the complaints on that score. The spectators will now have every opportunity of viewing a game with comfort, untormented by the constant fear of some rotten plank giving way under foot. We understand that the north side...
...might be well to suggest here that, as the football players are constantly annoyed afternoons by the crowd surging within bounds on the field, hereafter a rope be stretched around the field as in the Technology game, and no one except the players allowed to enter inside. As long as there is nothing but the remonstrances of the captain and coaches to keep the men off the field, the evil cannot be remedied...
...good work of the Harvard nine on June 9th brought out on the day following Class-day a crowd of 7000 people. Most of these left the field disappointed at the poor work of the home team, while admiring the strong playing of the visitors. Bates pitched admirably for Harvard. Up to the last inning not an earned run was made by Yale. In the ninth Yale made six hits, bringing in four earned runs. The score...
...never seen a game before, to be present at the match on Holmes Field to-day. Although the contest will probably be too one-sided to be breathlessly exciting, the pleasure of seeing some of the best cricketers in this country should be enough to bring out a large crowd. The Pennsylvania cricket team has two members of the celebrated American cricket team which went to England three summers ago, as well as several other well-known players. The Harvard eleven should receive some support from the college to aid them in playing an up-hill game, and certainly...
...alderman appeared on the scene and tried unsuccessfully to quell the disturbance. Finally the "townies" obtained some hose, and fastening it to a fire plug, turned the water on the students, who charged in a body and, after a hard battle, captured the hose and turned it on the crowd. The melee was settled by the appearance of a squad of police who cleared the streets...