Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There were no class officers except the captains of the baseball team and the crew, who were chosen at chapel the first of each year. The athletic spirit during the early seventies was dormant. Judge Grant was one of the first to revive the game of football. The rules were radically different from those of today. A player could run only when chased, and must stop as soon as pursued. In the first game with Yale at New Haven in 1875, Harvard was victorious, preventing Yale from scoring...
Interest in athletics at Yale, which has been dormant since the final games of football were played early in December, is revived by the opening of the rowing season. In response to Captain Armstrong's call, twenty-one men presented themselves as candidates for the university crew, and over fifty for the freshman. The work of the six members of last year's crew, who are now in training, will be very light at first, principally running and calisthenics. The rest of the candidates, including all of the '97 freshman eight, row daily in the tank, but their work will...