Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spite of the intolerable heat of the afternoon a crowd of almost 6,000 paying spectators gathered to witness the contest, while some 2,000 more watched the game as best they could from outside the fence. The reserved seats were crowded with ladies, by whom the crimson was liberally displayed...
...crowd at Princeton on Saturday were returning from the ball-grounds, they were greeted with the Princeton cheer in intensified tones proceeding from a large phonograph in the scientific building, and later in the day a drum helped the students make things lively in celebrating their victory over Yale.- News...
...tables narrow, crowd the chairs...
...reported, and a few days ago a student was temporarily disabled by being struck with the heavy cricket ball. It is a very simple matter for the men playing cricket to so locate themselves that the most likely direction taken by the ball will not be into the crowd gathered about the base ball field, or sitting on the few seats yet remaining on Jarvis. If no other location for the cricket crease can be found, every possible precaution ought to be taken to reduce this nuisance to a minimum...
After giving three times three cheers for the members of the nine, the immense crowd quietly dispersed at about ten o'clock...