Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...down. The playing of Princeton during the first half was disorganized and lacking spirit. In the second half she improved considerably, but even then Yale's playing was superior. The score was in favor of Princeton by the sheerest luck. But in all the beauties of the game Yale far excelled. Could the game be played over to-day it is the almost universal opinion that the chances would be two to one in favor of Yale's winning...
...Cook has recovered so far from his late injuries that he has resumed his position as coach of the Yale crews...
...straws for the possession of the ball. Yale won, and the game began. Yale's centrerush, the beautiful symmety of whose calf and the bewitching twirl of whose moustache were especially admired by the ladies, took the ball and ran gracefully towards his opponents' goal. He had not gone far when a Harvard man gently laid his hand upon his shoulder and begged him to stop. Thereupon the sides lined up. The quarter-back passed the ball to the half-back, who kicked it with such ravishing grace that it excited the admiration of every spectator. In endeavoring to secure...
Eighty-six is to be congratulated upon the success which has at last crowned its efforts. Notwithstanding the delays which the unfavorable weather necessitated, the series thus far has proved highly interesting, and offered the best eleven as fair a chance as possible to win the cups. It took no inconsiderable amount of enthusiasm to play so closely contested a game in such weather. The players deserve the highest commendation for their work. Despite the gloomy predictions which followed the withdrawal of Harvard from the inter-collegiate association, foot-ball appears still to hold its place with...
...Phillips Academies, located respectively at Andover, Mass., and Exeter, N. H., together with the Williston Seminary at East Hampton, Mass., stand among the first of American preparatory schools, yet Princeton has a per cent. of patronage from these institutions far below either that of Harvard, Yale or Amherst...