Word: favor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...development of the University team has been severely handicapped by lack of ice, so that the chances for victory this evening are slightly in favor of the Columbia team which has played several games and practiced regularly for more than a month on the St. Nicholas Rink. Last Saturday the Columbia team won from Princeton by the score of 4 to 2, but was defeated by the same score on Thursday night by the St. Nicholas Club...
...Committee on Athletics at the University of Pennsylvania yesterday resolved, "That it is the sense of the committee that its representative shall favor the recognition of the so-called intercollegiate football conference." The committee refused to ratify the election of V. M. Stevenson as captain of the football team for next fall...
...meeting of several captains and managers of Yale teams yesterday action was taken declaring that Yale is in favor of a consolidation of the old and new football rules committees...
...University team was disappointingly weak in the game with Pennsylvania last Saturday, the men have played more aggressively in practice this week, and the goal shooting has improved considerably. It is probable, therefore, that the game this evening will be very evenly matched, with the chances slightly in favor of Harvard. The defense, which did not come up to expectations in the last game, is improving, and is the strongest point of the team. The forward positions are more uncertain, and it is probable that MacAusland and Brooks, who has recently been taken up from the Freshman squad, will...
...meeting of the Athletic Committee last night it was resolved, "That the unanimous opinion of the Harvard Athletic Committee is in favor of the continuance of intercollegiate football at Harvard, provided the present rules and regulations under which the game is played and which they now regard as unsatisfactory, be changed in such a way as to be made acceptable to that Committee...