Word: cups
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard been in such urgent need of men. We have lost Rogers, Clarke, Bemis and Easton; and thus far we have looked in vain for men who can fully take their places. Yet I firmly believe that such men, at least that winners enough to bring back the cup, are right here in college. In this connection an extract from the Yale News in four columns of Monday, is extremely significant. It says: "She, (Harvard) has had advantages in point of numbers, and it is only by virtue of our greater enthusiasm and harder work that we have...
Therefore, let every man who has ever jumped or who has ever put the shot, enter the coming contest. All cannot win-what matter? All can help toward the grand result-winning the cup. Those who think they have no chance of winning here, will certainly, by the competition, oblige others to do better work. Quite possibly the unlikely ones may turn out the best. You never know what you can do till...
...been won. The two lower classes may have forfeited the game and the championship, yet it nevertheless remains a fact that '89 did not beat the other classes, and so '89 is really not the champion class in foot-ball. It has therefore seemed advisable not to award championship cups, but to let it be understood that unless all the games are played no real chapship is to be awarded; yet '89 played a hard game with '88 and it seems unfair that the members of the team should get no credit for their work simply because the other classes...
...these contests is to raise the standard of our work in the events, high enough to win in the Mott Haven games, all men who have even moder ate ability in either of these events are earnestly requested to enter the contests. If we are to win the cup this year, every man who can possibly help has got to take hold and work for the success of the team. If those men who have the ability will enter these contests, the training thus secured will go a great way toward helping us win the cup. Mr. J. G. Lathrop...
...field. They will accomplish the purpose for which they are held, only if men go in with a will and train for them faithfully. Every athletic man in college ought to feel that it would be partly his fault if Harvard should fail to win the cup this year, and for that reason ought to take every opportunity to help on the work of the team...