Word: fights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Stebbins made as plucky a fight as has ever been seen in the gymnasium...
...Stebbins, '86. Mr. Page won the middle-weight championship last week and it was expected that he would have rather an easy time of it with his lighter competitors. O. G. Smith, '83, who intended to enter in this event and who would undoubtedly have made a hard fight for the cup, was prevented from contesting by severe illness. The first bout was between W. A. Stebbins and W. H. Page. Stebbins was very tall for his weight, and had an exceedingly long reach, which stood him in good stead with his hard-hitting adversary...
First round - Stebbins led off with his right hand, but Page escaped by a neat duck, but he tried it once more with good success and caught Page on the side of the head. Page led for stomach and head, but was forced to fight very wary to escape Stebbins' right, which was used with good effect. The round closed a little in favor of Stebbins...
...DRENNAN.The fourth Sophomore Theme is due today. Subjects: 1. Prose Translation of the Aeneid XII. 614-952,-the fight between Aeneas and Turnus. 2. A Description of one of the Carnivorous Plants. 3. Richard Wagner. 4. Franklin at the Court of France. 5. Mirabeau. 6. Half-way through College. 7. Necessary and Unnecessary Expenses of Undergraduates...
...class in college that can remember such a series. The last series was played under particularly unfavorable circumstances, at a time when we had an especially weak nine to pit against the strongest nine that Yale ever put into the field. Every senior will recollect with pride the plucky fight we then made for supremacy against overwhelming odds. The 2 to 1 game, the 3 to 0 game, and the 3 to 1 game, coming as they did after the disastrous 21-4 game, stand without a parallel in the history of college base-ball...