Word: cups
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard is not alone is the matter of hockey. In Canada, hockey clubs are common, and the McGill College club is a very fine one, having won almost every game played in 1883 and getting the champion's cup. In Canada, the game is usually played in covered rinks, as the ice on the rivers and ponds is covered with snow all winter...
...think, gentlemen, that the same prohibition in track athletics has not lost us the Cup, and therefore that rowing can be similarly treated, you simply show your ignorance and lack of practical experience. The one is a matter of individual work; the other offers the problem of making eight men do at the same time each his best individually, and altogether their best collectively-making eight men work like eight men, and like one machine. The conditions are wholly different. Consider, gentlemen, what you are doing, and also explain the peculiar distinction you make between a professional (!) such...
...cup is to be offered at Columbia next spring for an inter-class base ball tournament...
...against a clear score of defeats. The past year has been the most disastrous to Harvard of any during the entire history of college sports. In foot ball, lacrosse, base ball, rowing, and tennis, we have met signal and crushing defeat. It was with the utmost difficulty that the cup was brought back, and the present aspects do not favor the assumption that even this will be repeated this year without great efforts. The personnel of the freshman eleven is such that good earnest work will have every chance of gaining its just recompense-a victory over Yale. Of course...
...forced through the goal posts by one side, or carried by the other away from that dangerous vicinity back into the enemy's country. This is the roughest part of the Eton game, and is sometimes, no doubt, where the match is a keen one, as for the House Cup, very rough. While the game is confined to boys, however, no very great harm is likely to ensue, and, as a rule, the Eton game may, we think, be said to be less prolific of serious accident than any other; certainly far less so than the Rugbeian indiscriminate pulling...