Word: expectations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foot-ball rules. "There can be no doubt that there is a growing public sentiment against the present style of play. People do not attend games in as large numbers nowadays as they used to do. They are tired seeing a prize fight between ruffians, when they expect to see a spirited game between gentleman. And, in our opinion, there will be no inter-collegiate foot-ball three or four years hence unless referees are secured who have the pluck and disposition to enforce the rules against players who are willing to break them. Undoubtedly it would be a safeguard...
...News, in a recent editorial, severely criticises our freshman for the delay in arranging the '87 game, and naturally attempts to lay the whole blame upon our side. It says : "They now propose to play '87 at Providence on the Saturday after Thanks-giving, which will deprive many who expect to go home at that time of the pleasure of witnessing the game. They object to playing at Hartford on the ground that Providence is more nearly equi-distant from Yale and Harvard. This objection to Hartford seems rather unbecoming when it is remembered that Providence is over three-quarters...
...Yale alumni together with some invited undergraduates expect to have a banquet in New York, next Thursday, after the Thanksgiving-game...
...Michigan Chronicle states that the team this year is very much stronger than it was two years ago, and that they fully expect to secure at least one victory in playing the teams of the inter-collegiate association...
...team is somewhat weak. The Chronicle claims that it is a better eleven than that of two year's ago. between which and the famous Harvard eleven of '82 there was so close a contest on the Boston grounds, as will be remembered by many. We shall certainly expect to see a well contested game this afternoon...