Word: favored
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accordance with the call issued a few days ago to the republicans of the University, a strong organization has been formed for the purpose of unifying the sentiment of those who favor the election of the republican candidates in the Presidential contest and of giving expression to that sentiment in a public meeting. The officers of the club have been hard at work and report that their efforts have met with gratifying success. A rally under the auspices of the club will be held at Tremont Temple in Boston on Friday evening next a 8 o'clock. The Chairman...
...impossible for the Harvard team. The Williams men were evidently used to playing in mud, for the condition of the ground did not appear to hamper them much. Time was called at 3 18, Harvard having the ball and the Williams team playing with the wind in its favor. The ball was kept in the centre of the field when it was forced to Williams ten-yard line. A rush and a kick by Williams carried the ball into Harvard territory. Sears punted and Harvard got the ball on a fumble. Rushes by Sears, Wadsworth and Fitzhugh carried the ball...
...five-yard line, when Harvard began for the first time to play with some snap. The ball went to Harvard on four downs. Sears kicked and Cumnock got the ball. Harvard forced the ball towards Williams' goal, but lost considerable ground by the decisions of the umpire in favor of Williams for off-side play by Harvard. Harvard finally got the ball on the Williams fifteen-yard line, and rushes by Sears carried the ball across the line. The ball was punted out and fumbled, and Cranston had it down on the ten-yard line. Sears again carried it across...
...what has Yale with which to meet these two rivals-one desperate with defeat and the other confident of her strength. Yale takes up the contest with one element in her favor, and that is the enormous amount of material from which to draw her men and against whom to practice the ones selected. Yale's succession of victories has brought to her doors many men who, were it not for their love of football, might have strayed to other colleges. The desire to be on the Yale team has inspired them to hard work in the preparatory schools...
...college men and the educated men who have studied the tariff theoretically; they are the best judges of tariff reform. Mr. Grimcke, as the representative of the colored Democrats said he supposed he was present to give color to the meeting. He spoke forcibly and convincingly in favor of the Democratic candidates and their principles, and said that it was to their hands that the colored people should entrust their welfare...