Word: fight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have played with Yale two years and Princeton has stolen the championship away from us both years. I have trained our team this year with the idea that we have got to fight the referee as well as Princeton. I hope our team will stamp our opponents in the mud to-morrow...
...done under the same conditions of weather which surrounded us in our game with Pennsylvania. It will not do, therefore, for the eleven to be too confident of success. But on the other hand there seems to be no reason why we should not give Yale as hard a fight for the championship as she ever had before, even considering the crippled state of our team. But whatever way be the issue, we may all be sure that every man on the eleven will enter into this last championship game with the determination to do his best...
...different but for the ruling off of Cowan, but the game is finished and such suggestions are useless. The contest became one in which Harvard relied on her weight entirely, using but a single trick. The disorganization of the Princeton team left her at a great disadvantage and the fight became an up-hill one. Every man on the team deserves credit for coolness and pluck to the very end of the match. As to the decision of the referee, it surpasses in unfairness anything we have ever seen on the foot-ball field. He over stepped the limits...
...Critic" is too pedantic, and what good thoughts it contains are almost hidden by the insufficiency of the style. Some lines "To the Composite Photograph of the November Century" are very bright and introduce some neat plays on words. "La Corrida de Los Toros," a story of a bull-fight in South American, is well told and ends in quite dramatic fashion. It can hardly boast of much originality, however. "A Backward Glance" is very amusing. "Roses and Cypress" is a sympathetically told tale of the exciting love of a pretty Italian peasant girl and the misery it brought...
Quite a large crowd intend going to Cambridge with the team on the 12th and if encouragement can do anything Princeton will at least make a good fight for victory...