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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...yards run, 880 ards run, 220 yards run over 2 feet 6 inch hurdles, 1 mile walk, pole vault, running high jump, putting 16 1b. shot, 220 yards run, throwing 56 1b. weight, tug-of-war of 650 pounds, 4 men, 2 substitutes allowed; no contest unless two teams enter. The course will be a board track of about 13 laps to the mile. Rules of the Amateur Athletic Union will govern all contests. The meeting will be open to members of recognized amateur athletic clubs only. An amateur is defined as follows...
Princeton men say in regard to George, the centre rusher, that he is a teacher in the Lawrenceville preparatory school, and for a long time refused to come back to Princeton to play foot-ball. He finally agreed, however, to re-enter Princeton when a promise was given him of having his position at Lawrencevile reserved for him. Cash entered only for the foot ball season, the Princeton men say, and in order to comply with the rule that he must stay the year out he will cut so many recitations that the faculty will expel...
Last Saturday's New York Herald contained an article. entitled "Harvard's Way of Dolng it," according to which a member of the Harvard nine was in Phi adelphia last week trying to get Ammerman of the University of Pennsylvanu to leave his college and enter Harvard to play on the nine. Captain Linn denies the truth of this article and says it has positively no foundation. The article is verbatim as follows...
...came to light here today. R. S. Ammerman of Danville. Pa., is a member of the University of Pennsylvania Law school and a very fine base ball player. An influential member of the Harvard nine was in town yesterday and today endeavoring to get Ammerman to leave Pennsylvania and enter Harvard. He offered to have Ammerman's tuition and board paid and give im a cash bonus besides. He even went went so far as to tell Ammerman that there was a ticket to Boston waiting for him at the Pennsylvania Railroad station. Ammerman refused his offer and said...
Annual Chess Tournament. Book for signatures at Bartlett's. Entrance fee 25 cents. The book will be removed Friday. All are invited to enter...