Word: downs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WE are all the more sorry to record the recent defeat of our Foot-ball Team because we have had to record defeat for them so seldom; and after the brilliant way in which the season opened, we had hoped to keep a clean score. We have been fairly and...
CHARLES SUMNER entered college in 1826, and occupied during his college course 17 Hollis, 12 Stoughton, and 23 Holworthy. He was a brilliant student in many studies, - belles-lettres, for instance, and history; but other studies so brought down his average that he did not stand within the first third...
The toss was won by Princeton, and the game promptly began at half-past two. A heavy wind was blowing against our team. For some time the ball was kept in the centre, until a fine run by Houston, and another by Bacon, brought it well up to Princeton's...
...unprofitably for both sides. Cushing, M. S., now secured a touch-down, but when Captain Cushing attempted to punt the ball out, it was carried by the wind into Princeton's hands. Shortly after, time was called, and the game was Princeton's by one goal, to two touch-downs for Harvard...
S.THE COLUMBIA GAME.The game with Columbia, postponed from Friday, was played on Monday in a severe rainstorm. Both teams were late in arriving. Cushing won the toss, and chose the northern end. It was ten minutes past three before the ball was kicked off. The rain fell in torrents, and...